From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 13 15:36:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CB515481 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (ind.alcatel.com 2.3 [OUT])) id PAA03031; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA11326; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:36:14 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA14859; Wed, 13 Oct 99 15:35:51 PDT Message-Id: <3805095B.FA25BBA5@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:36:11 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Greg Lewis , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH References: <199910130258.MAA62519@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> <199910131428.KAA11701@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < said: > > > If there is an appropriately licensed much more secure > > version of this functionality available then it would seem a good idea > > to have it in the base install too > > Between the US Commerce Department and the US Patent and Trademark > Office, it would be very difficult to arrive at an ``appropriately > licensed much more secure version''. It is important to keep in mind that we would be EXPORTING the discs and the source code. This is still a tough act to pull off; the "easing of restrictions" didn't ease this restriction. > > However, I'm guessing that a lot of > > sysadmins install ssh as their first act on a new install. Maybe when > > this reaches _most_ sysadmins it would be a candidate for the base > > system? > > Most sysadmins install either bash or tcsh as their first act on a new > install. Followed by less, emacs, and xv. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message