On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:15:58 -0400
erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:

> > IIRC plan 9 ssh is well out of date, only working with the relatively 
> > insecure version 1 of the ssh protocol. There is openssh in contrib.
> 
> which is half the story.  the other half is that the openssh port
> is bigger than gs and breaks too often.  this would be okay,
> but the code is large and dense.  kind of like a 500# fruitcake.
> i don't like fruitcake.  especially fruitcake with bugs in it.
> a native ssh implementation would be useful.

Ah yes, "Breaks too often" seems to be a not uncommon complaint against openssL 
even on un*x systems, at least . It has a hairy build system, at any rate.

I wonder if porting YaSSL would be a good idea. I think it includes ssh 
binaries or there may be a related YaSSH package.


-- 
Ethan Grammatikidis

Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.

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