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Re: ssh - How widely used?

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Subject: Re: ssh - How widely used?
From: [email protected] (John Anonymous MacDonald)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 23:15:48 -0700
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> Looks like a nice little implementation.
> 
> Comments anyone?

Yup.  Really nifty package that has been out (for unix) for about a
year.  Unfortunately, the author is turning it into a commerial
product, so it may not be freely available in the future.  There is
now a Windows port, but it is entirely a commecial product.  Source is
not available.

Though ssh is on the whole a nifty product, the unix version contained
a number of nasty implementation bugs that opened large security
holes.  These were found because source code was made available.  I
wouldn't trust the Windows version.  It seems inevitable that there
will be some bugs in it, but unlike the Unix version, "good guys" are
a lot less likely to find and report them.

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- ssh - How widely used?
  - From: Black Unicorn <[email protected]>

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