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Date:      Thu, 02 Oct 1997 00:30:27 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) 
Message-ID:  <199710011500.AAA00618@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Oct 1997 13:54:27 %2B0200." <199710011154.NAA20125@bitbox.follo.net> 

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> > How do you feel about adding source-IP-based access control?  That and 
> > a local sshd in port-forwarding mode would just about do it.
> 
> I'd like to support SSL, too, as Windows users has to do quite a bit
> of work to get hold of SSH (unless a freeware port has come along -
> I've not looked at SSH for Windows for a while).  It isn't the
> ultimate priority, but it would make it much easier.  (Especially if
> those pesky export-restrictions fall over and die).

The only SSH port to Windows is the one marketted by F-Secure AFAIK.  
They have the exclusive rights to it, at any rate.

> > SSL is, AFAIK, subject to certain undesirable licensing conditions (not 
> > exportable, not available for commercial use, etc.) which may render it
> > unsuitable.
> 
> SSLeay isn't too much subject to this; it was developed outside the
> US.  We'd need it integrated in a web-server, though, and I don't know
> how the state of Apache-SSL is (Stronghold works just fine for my job,
> so I haven't looked at the freeware side of this).

Do you have the time to investigate this?  A small embedded server with 
this bolted on would be ideal.

mike





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