OpenSSH protocol 1.6 proposal

[Damien Miller]

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Robert Watson wrote:

> I agree entirely.  I'd love to see a free, BSD-licensed, SSH 2.x
> implementation out there.  The continuing emphasis on improving the
> non-standard, albeit widely deployed, SSH 1.x protocol seems to be
> a less useful allocation of resources.  While a free version of 1.x
> is extremely useful, it's not the end-all. :-) If you can get people
> to upgrade to modified 1.x with backwards compatibility, wouldn't
> you be better served getting them to upgrade to 2.x with backwards
> compatibility? :-)

While I agree that a free version of SSH 2.x is a worthwhile goal,
it will take _months_ of effort (of course I would be happy to be 
proved wrong on this).

We already have a strong SSH 1.x implementation, why not clean up its
few remaining nits (which may take only weeks)?

Apart from standards-compliance, what does SSH2 buy you over a cleaned
up SSH1?

Regards,
Damien Miller

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