Question about porting SSH

[Dan Kaminsky]

Joey Doughly wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I am working on a project trying to port openSSH and have noticed that 
> some of the components rely on SSL which is a pretty big program as 
> well.  Is there any way to just rip out certain modules from SSL to 
> get openSSH to work with out porting all of the SSL components, and if 
> so what are the only SSL modules I need to get SSH to work properly.  
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Libtomcrypt provides an _extremely_ portable interface to everything 
you're looking for.  I'd argue we should use it, but I think the benefit 
of access to OpenSSL acceleration exceeds the cost of slightly limited 
portability and vulnerability to OpenSSL exploits.

http://www.libtomcrypt.org

--Dan