[71080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IT security people sleep well
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Jun 7 23:37:18 2004
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:02:53 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040608031723.GD56997@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Adrian Chadd wrote:
> A friend of mine here at uni wrote a much, much smaller sshd replacement
> he calls "dropbear". Its much, much smaller than sshd. Much smaller.
>
> http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
>
> I think its very very cute. Perhaps some vendors with small memory
> footprints would consider implementing this kind of tiny sshd?
Several third party firmwares for the linksys wrt54g wireless AP +
"router" (which, of course, is owned by brand C) implement sshd using
dropbear. For example, the ones at sveasoft, and at h.vu.wifi-box.net
srs
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