Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 02:28:33 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us> Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>, Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>, security@FreeBSD.org, openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH protocol 1.6 proposal Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000103022509.7881A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20000102061545.A1691@rumpole.bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, David Rankin wrote: > Speaking completely without facts, I am personally skeptical about > enhancing the 1.x protocol when all of the standards processes are > focused on getting 2.0 out the door. That said, I am willing to be > convinced on the matter. I agree entirely. I'd love to see a free, BSD-licensed, SSH 2.x implementation out there. The continuing emphasis on improving the non-standard, albeit widely deployed, SSH 1.x protocol seems to be a less useful allocation of resources. While a free version of 1.x is extremely useful, it's not the end-all. :-) If you can get people to upgrade to modified 1.x with backwards compatibility, wouldn't you be better served getting them to upgrade to 2.x with backwards compatibility? :-) Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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