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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This story turns 8 months old

[Anonymous Coward]

And it's a dupe, too. Remember when editors actually read submissions?

Actually..

[backslashdot]

Remember when editors actually read submissions?

No.

5 years since the first *release*

[heatdeath]

The project was first released as OpenSSH 5 years ago today. The project was started, however, much earlier than that.