Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:30:58 +1100 (EST) From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>, 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.LNX.4.10.10001031922560.661-100000@mothra.mindrot.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000103022509.7881A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > 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? :-) While I agree that a free version of SSH 2.x is a worthwhile goal, it will take _months_ of effort (of course I would be happy to be proved wrong on this). We already have a strong SSH 1.x implementation, why not clean up its few remaining nits (which may take only weeks)? Apart from standards-compliance, what does SSH2 buy you over a cleaned up SSH1? Regards, Damien Miller - -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: djm@mindrot.org (home) -or- djm@ibs.com.au (work) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE4cF5GormJ9RG1dI8RAooeAKCz3U4Riz1CL1ikvlWVfkTdZAU0MQCfcli1 mMn9rFYT50BnvFFIKEFZDiY= =bL3g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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