[linux-help] Re: FTP Server

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 05:35 am, you wrote:

> I am ending with another question - ssh seems to be easy to setup with
> normal passwod-based authentication - set it up, generate a key and use
> puTTY to login :) but the authentication based on other s/key,
> challenge/response, and kerberos etc seems to be a huge task!=3D20

iirc, it wasn't very hard at all the last time i set that up (and at the =
time,=20
i had no comprehension of public key cryptography! :^ )  if you haven't=20
already, i'd check out www.openssh.org and see if they have any docs for =
how=20
to do it...  it's been almost 3 years since i last did that, so i can't=20
recall off-hand how to set it up...

> the documentation and stuff i could find from the net is not that
> illuminating. could you suggest some good references please? and some
> good sites to learn about cryptography too - (this part seems a bit goo=
d
> but hard - what with all the talk of 128-bit, RSA, MD5 etc!)

personally, i find google to be an amazing resource for stuff like this. =
=20
that's where i learned how to use openssl to make a CA, certs, and sign=20
certs.   however, i learned most of what i know about cryptography in the=
=20
Novell courses at Hesston College (Bob, the Novell professor, goes into g=
reat=20
detail on public key cryptography in a few of the courses), so I'm unable=
 to=20
give a really good site or anything, other than telling you to try google=
=2E..

sorry i couldn't be more help...

gLaNDix
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