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OpenSSH Turns Five Years Old

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: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!)