At 5:04 AM +0200 3/3/00, Tatu Ylonen wrote:
>Please let me clarify. Universities will be allowed to use SSH Secure
>Shell also for research, administration, etc. Generally very
>liberally (probably without any exceptions).
>
>The details of the new license are currently being worked on to make
>them match the new university grant. It will be posted here in a few
>days as soon as it is ready.
This sounds very encouraging. We'll be looking forward to reading
the new license and see if it makes everyone here happy.
> > OpenSSH has been free to all for quite some time. And there are enough
> > free version 1 Windows clients like TTSSH to make it a viable
> > alternative. The licensing is not an issue; it is why I have not
> > migrated to version 2. Why didn't SANS offer to help the development of
> > what was already free rather than chase after a product that will still
> > have restrictions on "commercial" use for universities?
>
>Please remember that you need an RSA patent license to use SSH1, but
>not for SSH2.
>
>OpenSSH is based on my version from back in 1995 or 1996. The OpenSSH
>folks have fixed many of the (security) bugs in that version, but not
>all of them when I last checked. Some of the problems in SSH1 are
>very fundamental.
>
>I do not recommend use of OpenSSH (or SSH1 generally, for that matter).
My understanding is that SANS was originally pursuing an agreement
with MindBright technologies for their MindTerm (ssh1 implemented in
java) client. I don't understand (and have not heard) what happened
with that.
I would prefer an ssh2-based client, of course, but this offering
from ssh.com does not address one important aspect that SANS was
originally pursuing. Namely, clients for "more esoteric" operating
systems. In my case, "more esoteric" means MacOS, which does not
seem all that esoteric a platform to me. That's why the MindBright
client seemed the most promising one (the last I had heard).
What are the prospects for a ssh2 client for MacOS (or other non-unix,
non-windows platforms) from ssh.com which would also come under this
generous licensing offer? I am well aware that MacOS 10 is bsd-based,
and that the unix-client will probably work quite well there. I am
also well-aware that we own a lot of PowerMacs on campus which will
probably never run MacOS 10.
I hope I don't seem ungrateful here, but there are these Macs on
campus which I do have to consider...
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
