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(Replying to myself)

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

> Dropbear appears to be put together from many pieces, all of which seem to 
> carry a BSD-compatible license (IANAL etc etc). It is currently in ports 
> (security/dropbear) and the built, stripped binary appear to "only" be 53K 
> smaller than the OpenSSH one. Because an sshd is a network daemon, security 
> is of course a concern -- Is the 53K of saved space in /rescue (But 
> additional space somewhere else for the convert and key utilities) worth the 
> hassles of tracking upstream distributions of two seperate sshds? I 
> personally tend to think not, but I'm open for comments on this one.

Well, let me correct the size statement before someone else does. It would 
help if I actually compared the size of static versions of these files!

It's late...
Andy

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