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Re: The security of OpenSSH with cygwin.

To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Subject: Re: The security of OpenSSH with cygwin.
From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:17:15 +0400
Organization: deo
References: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF08EFED@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au><20010521200912.D17520@redhat.com>
Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin at cygwin dot com>

Hi!

Tuesday, 22 May, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:

CF> Right.  I cannot emphasize strongly enough that Cygwin is NOT A SECURE
CF> ENVIRONMENT.  Do NOT trust it with sensitive data.  It is trivially
CF> easy to hack.

and more to say, quite substantial *architectural* changes are
required to make it secure. cygwin does move in direction to be more
secure, but it's surely not a short way to go.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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References:
- RE: The security of OpenSSH with cygwin.
  - From: Robert Collins
- Re: The security of OpenSSH with cygwin.
  - From: Christopher Faylor

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