Whenever I'm connecting to a new remote server via SSH, I tend to verify the fingerprint to make sure that I'm actually connecting to my own machine. Usually it's not that big a deal as I'm simply comparing two strings, but what if those two strings are created with two different hashing algorithms?...
Client side access control is at hand, when the process or mechanism that enforces a users set permission is implemented on the users end of the application. The issue with this approach is, that a user has full control over their machine, and therefore the upper hand when it comes to protective mec...