2013/11/15 Roy Tam <[email protected]>: > 2013/11/14 Matt Johnston <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> Dropbear now has support for ECC which is significantly >> faster at setting up connections on slow platforms. Since >> it's a large patch I'm making a test release first. >> >> I've also added a "-R" mode to automatically generate >> hostkeys on first connection - this is recommended on >> embedded platforms which may take a while after boot before >> a good /dev/urandom seed has been derived. >> >> Download from >> https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/testing/dropbear-2013.61test.tar.bz2 >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> >> 2013.61test - Thursday 14 November 2013 >> >> - ECC (elliptic curve) support. Supports ECDSA hostkeys (requires new keys to >> be generated) and ECDH for setting up encryption keys (no intervention >> required). This is significantly faster. >> >> - [email protected] support for setting up encryption keys. This >> is >> another elliptic curve mode with less potential of NSA interference in >> algorithm parameters. curve25519-donna code thanks to Adam Langley >> >> - -R option to automatically generate hostkeys. This is recommended for >> embedded platforms since it allows the system random number device >> /dev/urandom a longer startup time to generate a secure seed before the >> hostkey is required. >> >> - Compile fixes for old vendor compilers like Tru64 from Daniel Richard G. > > dropbear on FreeBSD is broken? > > configure line: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
Forget to mention that the FreeBSD version I'm using is 9.2-RELEASE.
