OpenSSH protocol 1.6 proposal

[Eivind Eklund]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 01:00:11PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> Markus Friedl <markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 06:15:48AM -0500, David Rankin wrote:
> > > Speaking completely without facts, I am personally skeptical about
> > > enhancing the 1.x protocol when all of the standards processes are
> > > focused on getting 2.0 out the door. That said, I am willing to be
> > > convinced on the matter.
> > 
> > i have put the latest revisions of my SSH 1.6 patches to
> > 	http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~msfriedl/openssh/
> 
> Quick question.  Does this fall foul of this clause in the license:
> 
>    Any derived versions of this software must be clearly marked as
>    such, and if the derived work is incompatible with the protocol
>    description in the RFC file, it must be called by a name other than
>    "ssh" or "Secure Shell".

IANAL - but in my interpretation, no.  It stays compatible; it just
can negotiate higher security.

Eivind.