A Pre-Authentication Mechanism for SSH
draft-gutmann-ssh-preauth-00
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| Author | Peter Gutmann | ||
| Last updated | 2023-06-16 (Latest revision 2022-12-12) | ||
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Abstract
Devices running SSH are frequently exposed on the Internet, either because of operational considerations or through misconfiguration, making them vulnerable to the constant 3-degree background radiation of scanning and probing attacks that pervade the Internet. This document describes a simple pre-authentication mechanism that limits these attacks with minimal changes to SSH implementations and no changes to the SSH protocol itself.
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