Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-27T02:42:31Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I guess it depends on the encryption algorithm used. DES should compress > well if represented as a stream of hex values. On the other hand you can > always represent binary data as hex. The problem with that is that hex encoding radically in

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:06:06PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > I guess the question becomes, what comes first? > > Data is compressed first, then encrypted. And it all becomes clear now. 8:o) - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Angel L. Mateo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020626 23:40]: > El jue, 27-06-2002 a las 07:54, nate escribió: > > > > i dont think SSH's compression should affect security either way. > > I use it mostly out of habbit, it can sometimes improve the responsiveness > > of a connection. > > > > I would expec

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 04:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or > about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection? Classical crypto analysis uses the fact that the cleartext message has predictable patterns (as natural langua

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El jue, 27-06-2002 a las 07:54, nate escribió: > > i dont think SSH's compression should affect security either way. > I use it mostly out of habbit, it can sometimes improve the responsiveness > of a connection. > > I would expect if compression did affect SSH's security it would > be documented

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or > about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection? > > Just sort of my random curiosity for the night... i dont think SSH's compression should affect securit

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Barry Michels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the question becomes, what comes first? Data is compressed first, then encrypted. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

RE: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: SSH and compression - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:28 PM Subject: RE: SSH and compression > I might be misguided but I find it interesting that compr

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread Barry Michels
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:28 PM Subject: RE: SSH and compression > I might be misguided but I find it interesting that compression seems to > look for patterns > in data in order to r

RE: SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread alwyn
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:24 AM To: List, debian-user Subject: SSH and compression -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection? Just sort of my random curiosit

SSH and compression

2002-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection? Just sort of my random curiosity for the night... - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7