Hi Andy, On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:24 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been working with some T&M applications. Does anybody know of a >> good SSH key parser that I need to use, for remote authentication in >> such applications. Or does SSH sound like using a hammer against a fly >> in such a circumstance ? > > Well, computer and communications security is more than just a good key > parser. It also involves protocols, procedures, audits, proper clocks, > etc. But I digress.... > > > I don't know what you mean by T&M, but maybe you might find dropbear SSH > useful: I meant Test & Measurement for some debugging applications, which eventually would be Open Source and public. I was looking on the security/authentication aspects of a remote applications and hence SSH. Maybe it might be too big a hammer, but well, without trying, i guess who knows ... > http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html > > I make no claims as to the secuirty "goodness" of Dropbear SSH; I only > know that it exists. > > Be aware that getting enough entropy in the entropy pool to generate > good host keys on an embedded platform with no mouse or keyboard can be > a problem. But you only have to do that once really, if you never > rotate keys. > > And watch out for those Australian drop-bears, I hear they are deadly. > > Regards, > Andy Thanks. I appreciate your feedback very much. I will try it out soon. Thanks, Manu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
