Portable OpenSSH-2.5.2p2

[Damien Miller]

Portable OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 is now available from the mirror sites
listed at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

Security related changes:
	Improved countermeasure against "Passive Analysis of SSH
	(Secure Shell) Traffic"
	http://openwall.com/advisories/OW-003-ssh-traffic-analysis.txt

	The countermeasures introduced in earlier OpenSSH-2.5.x versions
	caused interoperability problems with some other implementations.

	Improved countermeasure against "SSH protocol 1.5 session
	key recovery vulnerability"
	http://www.core-sdi.com/advisories/ssh1_sessionkey_recovery.htm

New options:
	permitopen authorized_keys option to restrict portforwarding.

	PreferredAuthentications allows client to specify the order in which
	authentication methods are tried.

Sftp:
	sftp client supports globbing (get *, put *).

	Support for sftp protocol v3 (draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-01.txt).

	Batch file (-b) support for automated transfers

Performance:
	Speedup DH exchange. OpenSSH should now be significantly faster when
	connecting use SSH protocol 2.

	Preferred SSH protocol 2 cipher is AES with hmac-md5. AES offers
	much faster throughput in a well scrutinised cipher.

Bugfixes:
	stderr handling fixes in SSH protocol 2.

	Improved interoperability.

Client:
	The client no longer asks for the the passphrase if the key
	will not be accepted by the server (SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_PK_OK)

Miscellaneous:
	scp should now work for files > 2GB

	ssh-keygen can now generate fingerprints in the "bubble babble"
	format for exchanging fingerprints with SSH.COM's SSH protocol 2
	implementation.

Portable version:
	Better support for the PRNGd[1] entropy collection daemon. The
	--with-egd-pool configure option has been deprecated in favour
	of --with-prngd-socket and the new --with-prngd-port options.
	The latter allows collection of entropy from a localhost
	socket.

	configure ensures that scp is in the $PATH set by the server
	(unless a custom path is specified).

-d

[1] http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html


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