Greetings,

In order to better enumerate the problems the current version of drop bear has 
on irix 6.5, I rebuilt it and documented everything:

1. The SIGCLD bug I described and documented still exists.
2. After doing some in-depth testing, basically ed25519 and ECDSA are at 
minimum broken because SSH complains of a incorrect signature.
3. It functions unreliably and often hangs while trying to connect.

I don't really know what else to give you to chew on because the architecture 
changed a lot from when we fixed it in 2019. I attempted to reapply my fixes 
but they did not fix the problem.

I did manage to get a version of 2020.79 to build but again even though it 
builds cleanly, it breaks in unpredictable ways.

I unfortunately don't have enough background to be able to continue poking at 
this and figuring it out on my own so if someone would like to help get a later 
version of dropbear actually working, they can reach out to me. I am also going 
to contact people in the community and see if they can poke around at it.

I appreciate that this project has been around. Don't get me wrong. I just feel 
like we are kind of second class on support and with open SSH basically leaving 
people like us behind that doesn't give us a lot of good options.

Thank you for reading

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