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RE: RSA Patent Expired
From: woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
[ On Wednesday, October 4, 2000 at 19:43:55 (-0400), Richard A. Steenbergen wrote: ]
Subject: RE: RSA Patent Expired I think you're confused, ssh1 is still a very valid protocol. It is well tested and proven, and in many cases better implemented then ssh2 (though of course that may change eventually). Don't confuse the desire to make money with insecurity.
It's not that the draft version of the SSH protocol is by design insecure, but rather that it is somewhat broken when faced with real-world requirements -- the design completely omits at least one very critial requirement! The fact that it works as well as it does is a testament both to the ingenuity of its implementors and to the relative reliability of the Internet as a whole. (That's not to slight the initial design as "poor" either -- it was a very ambitious undertaking and some things just had to wait until a proof of concept turned into an indispensable tool! I still use it primarily today and I am only now slowly beginning a transition to SSHv2.) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
Current thread:
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Richard Welty (Oct 03)
- Re: RSA Patent Expired Bill Fumerola (Oct 03)
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- RE: RSA Patent Expired Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 03)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Richard A. Steenbergen (Oct 04)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Enkhyl (Oct 04)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Richard A. Steenbergen (Oct 04)
- Re: RSA Patent Expired Frater M.A.Ch.H. 999 (Oct 04)
- Re: RSA Patent Expired Richard A. Steenbergen (Oct 04)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Enkhyl (Oct 04)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Greg A. Woods (Oct 04)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Joe Shaw (Oct 05)
- RE: RSA Patent Expired Joe Shaw (Oct 05)
- Re: RSA Patent Expired Bora Akyol (Oct 05)