Tim Alberts wrote:
I got keys setup so I know I'm talking to my server.
This is probably not what he meant. You can use a key pair to authenticate with the SSH server and turn off password authentication entirely. That makes password guessing attacks utterly impossible, because the server will only accept a response signed with your private key.
ssh-keygen -t rsa
or
ssh-keygen -t dsa
generates a key pair. Do this on your local machine, and append the contents of your $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (or id_dsa if you chose DSA instead of RSA) to your $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote system.
This method is somewhat more complicated to setup, since all users must have public keys in their $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file, or they can't login.
Regards Ingemar