RedHat forks OpenSSH?

[Jefferson Ogata]

listz at hate.cx wrote:
> However if Theo and other did cave at every prospect of some corporation
> flexing their muscles then, as he pointed out before, ssh.com would have already
> subjected the project and you couldn't type "ssh" at the command line for
> OpenSSH. 

If acss were somehow central to openssh's functionality, as it is with 
DVD decoding, I'd totally agree. But here is seems it's been added for 
no other reason than to taunt lawyers. It's not a question of caving; 
it's more like antagonism, all the more so because acss is a cipher with 
  a very small key size. Inclusion of acss does nothing to strengthen 
openssh, and may well weaken it or even introduce a critical vulnerability.

Like everyone else, Red Hat chooses its battles, and, having deep 
pockets, it's a tempting target for litigation. I'm grateful to them for 
fighting SCO, and I've got no problem if they want to build fences to 
keep the other bozos away.

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Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov>
NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) <ncirt at noaa.gov>