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How secure is an SSH tunnel or connection?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202643695 views
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I have often advised people to use an SSH tunnel to secure their browsing on open WIFIs or in other insecure situations. I was recently asked by a friend how secure a SSH tunnel is after I had suggested SSH tunneling. I stumbled a bit and reiterated "its secure". Even though he was satisfied with t…

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I'd just like to quote a little from Wikipedia here: Even if a symmetric cipher is currently unbreakable by exploiting structural weaknesses in its algorithm, it is possible to run through the entire space of keys in what is known as a brute force a…

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