Jack J. Woehr: >Wonder how much IBM has chipped in? :) Why wonder? You can examine OpenSSH itself to find at least some of IBM's contributions. For example, Kevin Cawlfield and Matt Richards, who both worked for IBM, are listed in the credits for their contributions (with IBM's support). As another example, there's an IBM copyright notice within OpenSSH reflecting IBM's donation of certain code to the open source community. OpenSSH relies quite heavily on OpenSSL, and Suresh Chari at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center is listed as a code contributor there (as another example).
Of course we should all be grateful that the brilliant cryptologist Horst Feistel and his brilliant colleagues at IBM invented modern commercial cryptography with the Data Encryption Standard (DES). DES's immediate "lengthened" successor, TDES, is still (at this writing) considered "reasonably" secure and is the cryptographic algorithm in use on all those EMV (chip) credit and debit cards most Americans received for the first time this year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
