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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeSSH
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910141319320.21296-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991014191148.A70611@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Bjoern Groenvall:
> > If you are willing to run configure and make why don't you just fetch
> > ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/krypto/ossh/ossh-1.2.17.tar.gz? OSSH has no
> > restrictions on use (if you're not in the US) and builds straight out
> 
> The main problem is that this code base is *OLD* (1995) and a lot of things
> have been fixed (not only buffer overflows but protocol problems) since this
> version.
> 
> I see backporting all the modifications from 1.2.27 as a non trivial task and
> maybe not worth the big effort when you can install the latest with the
> port...

This is the version the OpenBSD guys have taken, I do believe. Hard work
isn't hard at all when someone else is doing it :-)

Kris

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