Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] SLIM: documentation

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > But my ssh data can't be classified higher, because ssh interacts with
> > network. Ouch.
> >
> > You are right that this will make recovery from spyware attack easier,
> > but...
> 
> Here you are raising concerns over secrecy, which is a totally separate
> issue from integrity.  In order to protect the secrecy of files, you
> would distinguish PUBLIC files from USER-SENSITIVE/SYSTEM-SENSITIVE
> files.

So... will I be able to set ~/.ssh/private_key to USER-SENSITIVE and
still use ssh to log in to remove machines? Will trojans coming from
network be able to read that file?

I do not think see how that can work... because ssh accesses network,
and needs to know my private_key.
								Pavel
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