[Macsec] Semi-OT: CVS over SSH

[Kee Hinckley [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

At 3:30 PM -0600 3/29/02, Steve Loranz wrote:
>Sorry, I'm behind on all of my lists.
>
>You don't need to launch anything from the shell.  CodeFab has a 
>really great unsupported utility that allows you to store your key's 
>passphrase in keychain and and will supply it to ssh when ssh is 
>executed via gui apps.  You can find

While that's certainly convenient.  How does it compare 
security-wise?  What encryption mechanism is the keychain using?  And 
of course the password the keychain is probably much smaller than the 
passphrase, not to mention being open most, if not all, the time you 
are logged in.
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Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.