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by **Danie** » Tue, 16 May 2000 04:00:00

If I am using SecureCRT for Windows with SSH on, will downloading a file
via "sz [filename]" or uploading a file ("rz [filename") be secure?

Thanks in advance.

by **Ken Pizzi** » Thu, 18 May 2000 04:00:00

>If I am using SecureCRT for Windows with SSH on, will downloading a file
>via "sz [filename]" or uploading a file ("rz [filename") be secure?

If you have a ssh link between two machines then everything
passing over that link, including sz transfers, will be
encrypted. Unless you specified "-c none" (or someone has
discovered a way to break one of the other ciphers that ssh
uses), and assuming that the private keys of the two ends of the
transfer have not been compromised, the encrypted data will be
secure against eavesdropping.

Put a different way, a sz transfer through a ssh channel is exactly
as secure as any other data passing through a ssh channel.

(It seems a little silly to me to use sz over ssh instead of
using scp directly, but whatever.)

--Ken Pizzini

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Is sz secure in ssh mode?

Is sz secure in ssh mode?

Is sz secure in ssh mode?