Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "How Secure Shell Works (SSH) - Computerphile" video.

  1. 3:18 Presumably there are additional checks somewhere to ensure the packet length is sane. Otherwise you could fiddle those first four bytes to some random bizarre values and cause mischief that way. Because remember the MAC at the end has to be found via the packet length, so you can’t verify that until you are sure of the packet length!
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  2. 4:31 Marketing travesty generator! Is there a copy of that text anywhere? ;)
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  3. 4:31 Marketing travesty generator! Is there a copy of that text anywhere? ;)
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  4. rsync is so cool. You know Andrew Tridgell developed it for his PhD thesis?
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  5. 3:18 Presumably there are additional checks somewhere to ensure the packet length is sane. Otherwise you could fiddle those first four bytes to some random bizarre values and cause mischief that way. Because remember the MAC at the end has to be found via the packet length, so you can’t verify that until you are sure of the packet length!
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  6. Particularly when you combine it with something like screen or tmux at the other end. It just illustrates what a pathetic excuse for a command line Windows has.
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  7. 4:04 You don’t encrypt the packet length!? Even I was able to figure out how to do that. ;)
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  8. 4:04 You don’t encrypt the packet length!? Even I was able to figure out how to do that. ;)
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