The honesty test

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:33:34PM +0800, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> 
> How could you whether a OpenSSH client (for example, Pietty, Putty,
> TeraTerm, OpenSSH's text client, ...) doesn't have codes that steal your
> password and key?

Read the code and see if it does anything with it. This is _precisely_
why source code should be available.

Kurt
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Buck-passing usually turns out to be a boomerang.