Nico Kadel-Garcia [nka...@gmail.com] wrote: > > Don't mistake OpenSSH for OpenBSD. The early history is fascinating. > > http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/ssh/ch01_05.htm > > (I was involved in very early SunOS ports of ssh-1 and ssh-2, before > OpenSSH existed.)
Most of the early history isn't even relevant to OpenSSH or to the world that uses OpenSSH because it involves ssh-2. OpenSSH took the last free version of ssh-1 and radically transformed it. Despite ssh-1 and ssh-2 being supported on a variety of platforms, none could include it because of the commercial license. Tatu's goal was to operate a commercial enterprise, but the goal with OpenSSH was to replace telnet. In the end, everyone got what they wanted, even if OpenSSH forced the commercial version to an enterprise niche, serving large environments with odd authentication systems
