OpenBSD integrates OpenSSH

Mr. Mot writes (from LWN) "OpenSSH: an Open Source Secure Shell program has been integrated into the OpenBSD operating system."

Heh... my turn :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, *I* got a first post here, something tells me the *BSD section is more than slightly underviewed.

Seriously though, wonderful move for OpenBSD. First thing I do on any UNIX system I admin is disable telnetd and only run ssh for remote login. Additionaly, I only trust passwords. I don't allow auth by certificate, and I sure as hell don't allow rsh style auth.

Anon because I hope all the Offtopic mods won't kill my karma :)

OpenSSH, but what about that RSA thing?

[StormCrow99]

I think this is really awesome that the OpenBSD guys did this.. I am totally sure that this will be ported over to every FreeN*X out there in no time flat (I have already seen someone starting a Linux port).. The only problem I have with it (and it isn't something that the OpenBSD guys can fix) is this:

OpenSSH is the best thing to use for remote admin, bar none.. I use it on all my boxen myself.. Unfourtunately I live and work in the US of A, and I am therefore infringing on RSA's patent on the RSA algorithym.

OpenBSD has successfully unencumbered SSH from everything except the patents on the algorithyms they are using. Two of them, RSA & IDEA, are patented and therefore require licensing for commercial use.

IDEA is easily lived without, as SSH uses several other algos for symetric encryption (RC4, DES, 3DES & Blowfish), but only one (RSA) for the public/private key encrytion nessasary to set up a session.

It would be nice if the OpenBSD guys could shove some Diffie-Hellman key exchange code into there as an option for those of us stuck in the States..

-] Crow