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OpenSSH 5.4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-secret dept.

HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"

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  1. Thank you Open SSH devs by overlordofmu · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am reading this article and posting to it through a ssh tunnel using OpenSSH on a Gentoo Linux server at home and putty.exe on a work laptop running XP Pro at work.

    Firefox sees it as a SOCKS 5 proxy at localhost. The tricky part was setting the config key in Firefox called "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true. (Navigate to about:config and filter for "proxy" to find this setting quickly). The corporate network admins use bogus DNS resolution as a firewall.

    I love you, OpenSSH devs. I sincerely thank you.

  2. Please note: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A brief quote from the project's home page:
    Please take note of our Who uses it page, which list just some of the vendors who incorporate OpenSSH into their own products -- as a critically important security / access feature -- instead of writing their own SSH implementation or purchasing one from another vendor. This list specifically includes companies like Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Red Hat, and Novell; but probably includes almost all router, switch or unix-like operating system vendors. In the 10 years since the inception of the OpenSSH project, these companies have contributed not even a dime of thanks in support of the OpenSSH project (despite numerous requests).

    So go and DONATE, as i've just done.