Linux-Hams archive - December 1999: Re: packet radio encryption

Re: packet radio encryption

Tomi Manninen (bwagyyzu@jhcohn.com)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:24:04 +0200 (EET)


On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jens David wrote:

> > I could easily fix that by encrypting my pipe over ssh.
> >
> > But it sounds like that encryption would be rather illegal.
>
> You can tell ssh not to use encryption for the session using
> the parameter -cnone. If doing so makes sense is another question.

It does because you can still use RSA authentication. You get a non-
encrypted connection without sending any passwords in the clear. I do that
daily. You have to recompile ssh to enable "-c none" however.

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