OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3

An anonymous reader writes "OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. It encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions. Version 5.3 marks the 10th anniversary of the OpenSSH project."

Comments

I know I'm not alone in this...

[93 Escort Wagon]

Thank you to everyone that's worked on OpenSSH over its lifetime - it's certainly made my (working) life easier.

And, unlike the Slashdot submission system, OpenSSH pretty much always works!

Thanks OpenBSD

[Spit]

For the rest as well.

Re:Thanks OpenBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Theo de Raadt is not all powerful. The project is stagnating now in some areas in spite of him being the leader. However nobody can deny he and his team are some of the best programmers around.
OpenBSD source code is the best I have ever seen and the first thing I do on any new Linux installation is to install OpenBSD tools.
Really if someone is reading this and wants to flee the Linux gulag, OpenBSD is a system to check. It is not the fastest, it is not the smallest, but it is the most secure and consistent.

How was life possible without it?

[stox]

To think we used to use telnet and rlogin to access everything.

OpenSSH is a far more significant technology than it has gotten credit for.

10 years of fear reading sec lists

[VonGuard]

No matter the OS, no matter the exploit, that name alone in the title of an email to bugtraq can send shivers down the spine.

To the best

[Powys]

My hats off to probably the best open source package ever made

Re:License

[onefriedrice]

Not wanting to troll but, you know, if openssh was GPL licensed said commercial vendors would have to release the source for openssh with their products, including any modifications they made. The project could also offer LGPL or BSD licensed versions in exchange for cold, hard, cash.

Instead they do the noble thing and release their hard work without strings attached. They understand the alternatives but actively choose to stick with a license that doesn't childishly punish those who cannot or won't return the favor. They do what they do not to "stick it" to corporations but rather because they love to code and love when their code is used to improve peoples' lives. They even love it when somebody is able to take what they've done and build off of it or incorporate it into a product. It's a matter of love, and love must be given without strings and viral conditions. It's true charity, and charity is for the giver as much as the receiver. It's the BSD philosophy, and it's not often understand by the GNU herd. But that's okay, because the software we write is for them, too. And we love it even if they don't understand why.

Thanks OpenBSD. You're awesome. I hope a lot of people today make good use of this link.