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> What is the compelling attraction of yet another potentially shortlived 
> variation on a proprietary protocol?

A very large installed user base?

Also, I'd hardly call SSH1 proprietary - at least not in the same sense
that Microsoft is proprietary. Source code has been available all along.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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