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 :/
SSH Tunneling?
SSH Tunneling?
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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
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
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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...
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...