From djm at mindrot.org Tue May 2 10:32:56 2000 From: djm at mindrot.org (Damien Miller) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:32:56 +1000 (EST) Subject: Announce: openssh-2.0.0beta1 Message-ID: For the last couple of months, the OpenBSD team has been working hard to implement the SSH2 protocol in OpenSSH. The SSH2 protcol offers a number of advantages over the SSH1 protocol including standards compliance (SSH2 is on the IETF standards track), improved security and operation without RSA (which is patented in some countries). This release of the portable version incorporates this work and adds inbuilt entropy collection for Unices which lack a kernel random number pool. Since there is a lot of new and changed code, we are keen to gather feedback from users of the new features. In particular: - SSH2. Please read README.openssh2 and add "Protocol 2,1" to your sshd_config and ssh_config. - Entropy collection. There is little documentation on this so far. If your system lacks both a kernel random pool and EGD, a file ssh_prng_cmds will be created. This file contains the commands which will be used to seed the random number generator. We are interested in additional commands and refinements to the current set. Please send in the output of "ssh -v", which includes the amounts of entropy gathered. The beta release is available from http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/beta Note that this release _requires_ OpenSSL 0.9.5 or greater. Regards, Damien Miller -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work) From djm at mindrot.org Sat May 20 19:13:06 2000 From: djm at mindrot.org (Damien Miller) Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 19:13:06 +1000 (EST) Subject: Portable OpenSSH-2.1.0p2 Message-ID: This is to announce the availability of portable OpenSSH-2.1.0p2. This is a bug-fix release, addressing the following issues: - X authentication works again (thanks to Markus Friedl) - Don't touch utmp if utmpx is in use - Fix SIGCHLD problems on AIX and HPUX (Thanks to Tom Bertelson) - HPUX compile fixes (Thanks to Lutz Jaenicke) - Accept an empty shell in /etc/passwd - SunOS4 compile fixes. (Thanks to Todd C. Miller) >From now on all portable releases will have a 'p' suffix to distinguish them from the official OpenBSD source. Thanks to all those who submitted bug reports and patches. Regards, Damien Miller -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work)