Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:46:00 -0500 From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markus@openbsd.org, dugsong@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH patches Message-ID: <199911021446.JAA27912@india.citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp, Tue, 02 Nov 1999 07:13:16 %2B0100
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In message <23974.941523196@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >But if we cannot put it on the CD anyway, what is the point of using >the weaker OpenSSH rather than "the real thing" ? Why is it weaker? And what are the differences? OpenSSH talks protocol 1.5 including X11 + agent forwarding. If you had tracked bugtraq recently, you would have noticed that there was an attack that applied to normal ssh but not to OpenSSH. Actually, OpenSSH has many benefits over normal ssh. One of them, already convincing enough by itself, is the free commercial use. Greetings, Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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