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OpenSSH is Five Years Old

Posted by michael on from the send-a-block-of-wood dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OpenSSH marks five years of its existence this week and a new round of internet SSH version mapping shows that it has over 88 percent of the SSH server market, according to Damien Miller, one of the developers. Read more."

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  1. Congrats, but be wary of monocultures... by Dr.+Manhattan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    OpenSSH is da bomb, and no mistake. The people who work on it are very, very good, and its marketshare is deserved.

    But even they have made mistakes once in a while. An exploitable hole in ssh is a worm-writer's dream. There aren't many sshds that aren't running as root...

    I'm kinda glad there are things like lsh out there. Diversity makes the bad guys' job harder.

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    PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!