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ssh replacement, lsh 0.1 announcemented

Thanks to Kragen Sitaker
for passing this along.

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has
been posted as well.

This is the first public release of LSH, a GPL’ed implementation
of version 2 of the Secure Shell protocols. Both a server and a
client is included.

LSH-0.1 supports the basic operations, such as key exchange,
encryption, compression, password authentication, and spawning of a
remote shell (including a pty).

A lot of things are still missing. In particular, the randomness
generator is lousy (except possibly on systems with a good
/dev/random), and there’s no hostkey database, leaving it open to
Man-in-the-middle attacks. So you don’t want to replace ssh with
LSH quite yet.

You can get the source from

ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/lsh-0.1.tar.gz

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-0.1.tar.gz

There’s a mailing list for discussions about LSH and other free
ssh implementations, see http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/
for details.

If you would like to contribute, mail me or the list. If you
would like to help funding the development of LSH, please contact
me.

Happy hacking,
/Niels Möller

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