[Cryptography] WireGuard

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Thu Aug 30 18:28:32 EDT 2018


On 2018-08-30 16:56:12 +0100 (+0100), Howard Chu wrote:
[...]
> ssh's default key model is "convenient" but less secure than the
> certificate authority model, as soon as you have more than one
> computer in an administrative domain. How many people actually
> stop and phone up a remote collaborator to verify a host key the
> first time they connect to a new machine?
[...]

I don't know about you, but I publish SSHFP RRs in DNS for my
systems, so my users (as long as they have working DNSSec) don't
_need_ to call me up. Sometimes there are ways to make these sorts
of models work fine.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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