Intrusion Update

Damian Myerscough damian.myerscough at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 15:14:03 UTC 2009


Hello,

What about the use of S/Key (one-time passwords) I think it is possible 
to deploy SSH with S/Key authentication. I haven't look into it that 
much but it could be a possible solution?

susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>> So I'm not quite sure how to 'fix' this problem.  By that I mean, even if
>> we knew this attack was going to happen I'm not totally sure of a feasible
>> solution, using only free software, that we could have used to fix it.
>> Obviously a physical rsa key or the like would have worked but I don't
>> think we have the manpower nor budget to implement such a system.  So I
>> ask the list, any ideas?
> 
> A single use random code/passwd mailed/texted each time one tries to
> login and invalidated just after use??
> 
> Basically I am referring to RFC 2289[1]
> 
> [1]http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2289.txt
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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Regards,
Damian Myerscough




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