SSL wrapping or SSH tunnelling? Which is more secure?

[Nik Clayton]

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:55:08AM +0100, Pete French wrote:
> > I use ssh forwarding, just because it's the approach I found first.
> > Never had a problem with it.
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> Ou of interest, how do you do the ssh forwarding ? I've not yet found the
> magic combination of arguments to let me set up a permentnet tunnel witho=
ut
> something running on the far end. At the moment thats a shell script which
> sleeps 10 minutes and then dies. Any alternative suggestions ?

    % cat ~/bin/do-tunnel.sh
    #!/bin/sh

    ssh -2 -N -f -L 9143:ngo.dnsalias.org:143 ngo.dnsalias.org

which maps localhost:9143 to ngo.dnsalias.org:143.  I then point my IMAP
clients at localhost:9143.

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