[66632] in Cypherpunks
Re: ssh - How widely used?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Anonymous MacDonald)
Fri Sep 27 02:30:10 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:15:48 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald)
> Looks like a nice little implementation.
>
> Comments anyone?
Yup. Really nifty package that has been out (for unix) for about a
year. Unfortunately, the author is turning it into a commerial
product, so it may not be freely available in the future. There is
now a Windows port, but it is entirely a commecial product. Source is
not available.
Though ssh is on the whole a nifty product, the unix version contained
a number of nasty implementation bugs that opened large security
holes. These were found because source code was made available. I
wouldn't trust the Windows version. It seems inevitable that there
will be some bugs in it, but unlike the Unix version, "good guys" are
a lot less likely to find and report them.
