The SSH-2 protocol supports the following user authentications:
* Public key authentication (DSA, RSA*, OpenPGP)
* Host-based authentication
* Password-based authentication
Note: SSH-1 supports a wider range of user authentications, i.e., the public-key, RSA only, RhostsRSA, password, Rhosts (rsh-style), TIS, and Kerberos authentications.
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Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A Burmese hacker group that targets popular Burmese websites broke into the Myanmar Climate Change Watch (MCCW) website created by noted meteorologist Dr. Tun Lwin. The
The Basic Authentication scheme uses the username and password and encrypts the password using base64 encoding. In spite of this, there are still many security holes in the Basic Authentication