how can I reduce binary size of sshd?

Peter Åstrand astrand at lysator.liu.se
Fri Mar 9 03:17:34 EST 2001


Damien Miller wrote:

>This is what we pull in from the OpenSSL headers. It may be a
>rough guide to what we use:
>
>#include <openssl/bio.h>
>#include <openssl/blowfish.h>
>#include <openssl/bn.h>
>#include <openssl/cast.h>
>#include <openssl/crypto.h>
>#include <openssl/des.h>
>#include <openssl/dh.h>
>#include <openssl/dsa.h>
>#include <openssl/err.h>
>#include <openssl/evp.h>
>#include <openssl/hmac.h>
>#include <openssl/md5.h>
>#include <openssl/pem.h>
>#include <openssl/rand.h>
>#include <openssl/rc4.h>
>#include <openssl/rsa.h>
>#include <openssl/sha.h>

Which algorithms is really required in OpenSSH? I've tried to compile
OpenSSL without for example RSA support, but then I couldn't compile OpenSSH.

I'm also wondering if anobody has experience with running lots of SSH
connections on one single server (1000 or so).

-- 
/Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se>








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