torsdagen den 10 oktober 2002 18.41 skrev Vincent Danen: > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 08:14 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > [...] > > >> I read part of the draft and nosed around the site. Can't say that I > >> really care to include this. Looks like it's a nice way for them to > >> make some extra $$. I didn't really see anything about a license > >> there, so have no clue what the license is; there's just the one > >> copyright notice. > >> > >> I can't say that I'm thrilled with the idea of adding something like > >> this. > > > > You might be right about the $$. But it's new code following a new RFC > > from > > what I could understand. New features are allways exiting. I have > > mailed > > vandyke to make them clarify the license. > > You're missing the point. If you look at the RFC, *they* wrote it. > This isn't a "community" RFC that they decided to implement; they wrote > the RFC and they're selling the product. It looks very self-serving to > me. Not to say it isn't an interesting concept, but I would like to > see what the openssh team decides before arbitrarily adding it.
Hmm..., you probably right about that. But then..., I haven't seen anything opened up from the commercial ssh folks like the originator, f-secure, etc. > Of course, it would be a different story if vandyke wanted to "sponsor" > our adoption of their ideas. Monetarily, of course. =) Yes maybe a good idea, why not ask them?. dns distributed public ssh keys? hell..., then we need a secure dns server too ;) But I wouldn't know since I'm not even allowed to download their products, ha ha ha... ;) > >> Sure, it definitely might be interesting. I'd like to get the > >> thoughts > >> of the openssh team first, tho. I really don't like adding stuff that > >> hasn't been audited by them (since they know the openssh code better > >> than I), especially with openssh being such a core component. If it > >> was licq or something, no big deal. > > > > Yes, you're right. Let's wait and see what happens. I searched their > > mail > > archives but couldn't find a word about the keyserver feature. > > Nope, haven't seen anything either. I'll fire something off to the > list and ask about it. Great!, keep us posted. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks http://d-srv.com Check the "Modules For Apache2" status page at: http://d-srv.com/modules_for_apache2.html
