"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Snow writes:
> > > What is the current status of the Free SSH effort?
> >
> > This is an awfully quiet list.
> >
> > "Is there anybody out there?"
>
> I'm starting to think that if anything is going to get done, someone
> is going to have to start the effort afresh.
Perhaps this is the right time to announce that I'm hacking on a
GPL:ed ssh. I don't think I want to talk too loud about it until I
have something marginally working.
Current status is that I have about 6500 lines of C code, not counting
headers and crypto stuff. There's a snapshot since last week at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-snapshot-19980908.tar.gz
(I'll make another snapshot as soon as I get the code to compile
again).
The structure is still a somewhat floating, so I'm afraid it's
difficult to give much coding help at this very moment. But of course
you can read the source, and I appreciate comments and suggestions.
The HACKING file is the best place to start reading, I think.
The plan is to first get a *minimal* client and server working, to see
if the structure is good enough, and to make it possible for other
people to work on it. "Minimal" means: One flavor each of keyexchange,
signature method, MAC, bulk crypto and user authentication, and
support for remote exec. Other features like compression, pty
handling, forwarding etc can be added later.
I started working on it about three weeks ago, August 26.
Happy hacking!
/Niels M�ller
