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Re: SSH never free



Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:

> On 1 Oct 1999, James Troup wrote:

>> [ RSA is no longer included. ]

> Wait wait, doesn't this mean that ssh RSA authentication is gone as well??
> Did they replace it with DSS/DH or what? IMHO ssh would cease to be very
> usefull as a security tool without a public key mechism, not to mention
> that existin ssh clients would not be able to securely connect to obsd-ssh
> servers :<

They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free?
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