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Re: ABOVE.NET SECURITY TRUTHS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 28 23:13:29 2000

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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:09:19 -0400
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
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Steve,

At 10:48 PM 04/28/2000 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>As for the expense of ssh -- the big issue is login, when a lot of public
>key operations are taking place.

Yes, any computational intensive process is expensive.

Yes, the price is worthwhile.

- paul



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