"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alex Woo writes:
> > Could someone email me a copy of the SSH 1.5 RFC's rather
> > than the currently posted SSH 2.0 document?
>
> Why do you assume such documents exist?
There was one or two RFC-like documents in the ssh distribution
several years ago. If that was protocol version 1.5 or something even
older, I don't remember.
> > If someone were going to implement a GPL
> > version of SSH, I would forget the SSH 2.0 spec and just
> > work on SSH 1.5.
>
> The 2.0 spec has much better functionality. Among other things, it
> corrects some serious weaknesses in the original protocol.
I think I like the ssh-2 protocol. It's clean, flexible, and without
too many special hacks. But since I haven't looked at the
documentation for any earlier protocol version for ages, I can't say
how different they are, except that earlier versions had weaker
message authentication.
Do you think you could give us a summary on the changes and
improvements in the 2.0 protocol?
Another question: Does there exists any documentation (besides ssh
source code, which I prefer not to read at this time) for the
ssh-agent mechanism?
/Niels
