Re: ssh gives "Permission denied, please try again"

[Ian Rawlings <news06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-07-29, Jonathan Buzzard <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps, but another issue with keys is that you could be forced to
> disclose the passphrase to your key should you take it through an airport.
> With failure to do so leading to detention by the authorities. Compare
> that to the password in my head.

Ridiculously unlikely given that the person at the airport would need
to know that SSH keys exist and of course, if they do, what use are
they as they don't actually contain kiddy porn or copied DVDs or
whatever the airport authorities are looking for; they are looking for
data on the laptop, and demonstrations that the laptop is a genuine
laptop, and an SSH key is not something they are looking for.  Besides
it's easy to hide things.

So compare that to the much more likely scenario of your password
being snaffled because you're logging into your crown jewels from
untrusted machines...

> I know which I would prefer...

Your choice!

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