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OpenSSH Turns Five Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the edoc-eht-kaerb dept.

heydrick writes "The OpenSSH project is five years old. Project member Damien Miller writes, 'Five years ago, in late September 1999, the OpenSSH project was started. It began with an audit, cleanup and update of the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's legacy ssh-1.2.12 code. The project quickly gathered pace, attracting a portability effort and, in early 2000, an independent implementation of version 2 of the SSH protocol. Since then, OpenSSH has led in the implementation of proactive security techniques such as privilege separation & auto-reexecution.' Yaa for OpenSSH."

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  1. Re:Actually.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Looks like they didn't even read the summary: 5 years ago was not September 1999..

  2. Re:Ettercap team claim SSH / SSL is easy crackable by AndreyF · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember when the US Federal Gov'nt was having a royal fit about encryption and then just kinda "gave up"? Unless they can crack it, they wouldn't have given up (use 4096 encryption, people!)

  3. Awesome software by maelstrom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thank god that OpenBSD cares enough to make the portable version of OpenSSH. I've used OpenSSH to make my machines more secure on everything from Solaris to Linux to *BSD.

    Kudos!

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  4. Re:Cool... by smkndrkn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly, or not, I'm using SecurID from RSA Security and the PAM module requires that I shut off Privsep.

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