[tor-talk] Three questions

Jann Horn jann at thejh.net
Mon Aug 11 18:40:57 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:01:14PM +0000, ml at ruggedinbox.com wrote:
> About connecting to an ssh server with keys, just a little doubt: if I
> connect to all my servers without changing my ssh private and public keys
> (so without deleting '/etc/ssh' and re-creating the keys every time), would
> an attacker be able to observe that the same client (my pc) is connecting to
> those different servers ?
> In short .. can my ssh client be tracker / fingerprinted if I use always the
> same public and private keys ?

No. The client only reveals his identity to the server after the key exchange
has happened and the server has authenticated itself to the client.
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