[66652] in Cypherpunks
Re: ssh - How widely used?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Sep 27 10:43:05 1996
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Cc: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:39:46 CDT."
<199609270039.TAA05797@homeport.org>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:33:25 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Adam Shostack writes:
> Theres a windows version, mac is under vauge development. SSH
> is pretty cool, but the code base is somewhat messy, and its shows
> signs of its origins in things like systems calls not having their
> return values checked.
>
> Despite all this, I use it, like it, and recomend it for use
> in systems not likely to come under attack by professionals.
I actually think its probably okay even for systems that might come
under professional attack -- I don't recommend it for use on systems
that are mission critical, though, like systems running transactions
and such. Indeed, I don't recommend running ANYTHING on such systems
unless you are really, really, really careful about what you are
running and where you are running it from.
.pm
