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SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeaaaa, a complete redesign from scratch sounds way more dangerous. “Noah, get the boat” isn’t always the best answer. There’s been a lot of thought and testing put into the magnificent work that is SSH over the past few decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I won't pretend I know better than the paper authors, what I can say is that some fixes are not incremental.

There are cases that mature tools and protocols should be left behind, and the danger lies exactly in using a protocol that was designed in the web 1.0 era.