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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:37:47 -0500
From:      Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
To:        Issei Suzuki <issei@issei.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH patches 
Message-ID:  <199911021437.JAA27155@india.citi.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: Issei Suzuki, Tue, 02 Nov 1999 06:57:58 %2B0900

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In message <19991102065758V.issei@issei.org>, Issei Suzuki writes:
>  It does not seem that OpenSSH source code includes any kind of
>crypto argorythm (they are included in OpenSSL library), but is it
>still affected by US crypto restrictions?
We tried very hard to remove all crypto algorithms from the OpenSSH
sources themselves.  Eseentially only the protocol is left.  OpenSSH
has about 20K lines of source, compared to the 70K in ssh-1.2.27.
This allows for easier code audit, and also easier to touch for people
in the USA.

Greetings,
 Niels.


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