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Jan Schejbal wrote:
> PuTTY, a SSH client for Windows, requests the passphrase to the ssh key in the
> console window used for the connection. This could allow a malicious server to
> gain access to a user's passphrase by spoofing that prompt....
That seems to be the default for many ssh clients, you might want to look at
http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2008-May/026416.html for
older discussion on that topic.
Regards, a dog
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