Learning Python Network Programming

(Sean Pound) #1

Programming with Sockets


If you can also capture packets on your remote machine (192.168.56.101),
you could see FTP traffic, as shown in the following screenshot:


Interestingly, you can see your FTP password sent from the local machine (over SSH
tunnel) as clear-text only on your remote box, not over the network, as shown in the
following screenshot:


So, in this way, you can hide any sensitive network traffic in an SSL tunnel. Not only
the FTP, you can also pass remote desktop session encrypted over an SSH channel.

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