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Forget typing your password to SSH, Certificate based Authentication is where it’s at. Darren demonstrates with an Interceptor, Dropbear and Ngrep. Want a Linux Live USB key with persistent storage? Shannon has just the tool. Plus your picks on SSH tools and answers to your Wordpress questions.

Certificate Authentication for SSH

In this segment Darren explains why certificate authentcation is a bajillion times better than password authentcation and demonstrates the configuration using Ubuntu 9.10 and an Interceptor running OpenWRT Kamikaze. This forum thread details setting up authorized_keys with Dropbear -- the SSH daemon that comes standard on OpenWRT.

Next week we'll be breaking this down with a little Man-in-the-middle action. Until then send your feedback to darren@hak5.org

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Certificate Based Authentication, Persistent Live Linux & More

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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