Comment Re:FreeBSD 9.1 (Score 4, Informative) 220
OpenSSH 6+ will print "unknown option" instead of "illegal option", hence the "grep -e illegal -e unknown" ;)
What other fucking form of authentication is there? Certs? Those are just strings - like a password. Encrypted certs? What are you encrypting them with?
It all comes down to a secret someone has too know. Call it a key, a cert, a token, whatever, it's a fucking password at the end of the day.
If your auth'ing with a username / password on an infected server you're actually *sending* your credentials to the server. This is not he case wih a cert auth, especially when you use ssh-agent to hop to other servers.
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