Re: Easy Guide Mass Update!

[nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller)]

Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> A few quickies though:
> 
> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users

Because the vanilla ssh is not free software, and it also uses the RSA
algorithm which is patented in the US.

However, version 2 of the SSH protocol doesn't use RSA, and there is
at least one free implementation, namely LSH. Moreover, one month ago
I installed lsh-0.9.4 on bos1.gnu.org. To login, you have to get
either SSH Inc's ssh2 or LSH. lshd is not currently running on any GNU
machine but bos1.

You can get lsh at ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh, or
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive. The 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 are
probably the most stable versions.

I'd be most happy if you try it out and let me know you have any
problems with it.

Best regards,
/Niels (LSH author)