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 ---- XOR for AES -- join the campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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