Reduced sshd

Jason Stone jason at dfmm.org
Sat Jan 20 11:32:06 EST 2001


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> > I'm looking for a minimal implementation of the ssh daemon, which
> > could, for example, be used in a linux router. Is there such a
> > version, or should i try it myself? If i'm going to do it myself,
> > which features can i remove, which is the best encryption methode to
> > use?
> 
> There is a lot of stuff you could probably remove from the code base
> if you really wanted to rather than just turning it off in the server
> config, but what do you believe this is going to achive for you ?

Probablly he believes that he's really tight on space and wants to trim
the binary size?  There are a number of projects to run linux
routers/firewalls that boot off of a single floppy, or a very small flash
disk, etc, unpack into ram and run a really minimal system out of a
ramdisk.

If you control all of the clients, you're free to pick whatever you want.  
Personally, I'd go with just protocol 1 support, and just blowfish for the
symmetric cipher.  If you have to allow/support weird clients though,
you'll have to have a look and see what they support.


 -Jason

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