Re: SSH

[Defresne Sylvain <sylvain.defresne@enst-bretagne.fr>]

* Nate Amsden (aphro@portal.aphroland.org) wrote:
> Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote:
> 
> > As you can see, there isn't any support to patented algorithms, thereby I
> > don't know why the debian doesn't upgrade the version of ssh...
> 
> probably because openssh2 came out after potato was frozen. and because
> debian
> is a good distribution they won't allow such new and untested code into
> a frozen distribution :)
> 
> from the looks of it debian potato froze on jan 16 2000 and openssh
> started
> supporting ssh2 around april/may 2000 (going from the press coverage
> on openssh.com)
> 
> woody and or sid probably have openssh2.x however i don't use non stable
> distributions so...i can't say for sure.

	I think, since ssh -V give this to me (I'm running sid) :

SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
Compiled with SSL (0x0090600f).

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DEFRESNE Sylvain