On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:50:54 +0100, you wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 18:04:58 +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
>> (2) It was an extremely dumb decision to make ssh2 incompatible
>
>It was not possible to make it compatible and be freely implementable. SSH1
>was hardwired to use RSA which is patented; AFAIK it had no possibility of
>using another public key crypto algorithm.
Then ssh2 should have been made to use a different port. pop2/pop3 are
a good example.
Greetings
Marc
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