SSH Tunneling?

Post by **ayu** » 04 Mar 2007, 08:06

1: What is SSH Tunneling?
2: What is it good for?
3: How does it work?
4: Why SSH Tunneling?, what makes it possible? why not FTP Tunneling or something :/

Post by **pseudo_opcode** » 05 Mar 2007, 03:45

http://www.ssh.com/support/documentatio ... ained.html

Ameradi · Post by **Ameradi** » 05 Mar 2007, 07:58

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh_tunnel

Post by **ayu** » 05 Mar 2007, 11:50

Thanks for the answers ^^. but in what way could this be good for "malicious" purposes?

, just wondering because i have seen it on other security sites.

p99 · Post by **p99** » 12 Mar 2007, 22:31

It's just using a proxy.

You obviously don't want your target to know who you are. Same as if you were trying to get into a site via the browser. You would generally proxy your connection.

Shh tunneling is just a means of going through several computers so joe schmoe is the first accused cracker and not neo130.

Of course of does no good if the log trail still exists

Post by **bad_brain** » 13 Mar 2007, 05:21

SSH tunneling is used to evade malicious activities like sniffing. if you transfer a txt-file through FTP for example everything is transmitted in clear text so an attacker could sniff the data and read everything.
but if you tunnel the connection through SSH it uses the encryption provided by the SSH protocol, so an attacker would have a hard time trying to get a grip on your data.
and yes, it can also act like a proxy. let's say port 23 is blocked for some reason (on work or school) you can tunnel the connection through SSH which uses port 21...

Post by **ayu** » 13 Mar 2007, 06:51

Awesome...me likes : p