The Camellia block cipher for OpenSSH 4.6p1.

[Yoshisato YANAGISAWA]

Hello Peter,

Thank you for interested in my patch.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:31:33 +0200
Peter Stuge <stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org> wrote:

> I must say I find it truly inspiring to see this open attitude
> in national organizations and big companies. :)

Thank you :-)

> > I hope you will enjoy this patch and OpenSSH will use it.
> 
> Since there was not much immediate interest I would suggest opening a
> bug in the OpenSSH bug tracker at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ so
> that the patch is not forgotten in the mailing list archives.

I followed your suggestion and opened a bug at:
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340

> Actually, it may be more appropriate to get a patch into the upstream
> OpenBSD OpenSSH bug tracker so that not only -portable gets the new
> cipher. The cipher seems to be license-compatible with OpenBSD,
> right?

I agreed that point but it might be a hard work to do. That is because 
OpenSSL in OpenBSD is now 0.9.7j, which doesn't support Camellia. 
However, I will try to port Camellia block cipher to OpenSSL and OpenSSH 
in OpenBSD.

I think it is compatible since there is Camellia source code distributed 
under BSDL and FreeBSD-current has Camellia library inside OS kernel for 
IPsec.
http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/camellia/engine.html
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/6/emw531216.htm

Thank you.

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Yoshisato YANAGISAWA <yanagisawa at csg.is.titech.ac.jp>
Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences,
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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