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Re:Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH by eldios on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:08AM (#17765708)
Dropbear has been created in 2002.

From the project ChangeLog:

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0.28 - Sun Apr 6 2003

- Initial public release

Development was started in October 2002

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..why is it surfacing now on HN? O_o

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Re:Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH by zymhan on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:13AM (#17765740)
I mean it's good to remind people of older and less-known projects, but Dropbear is quite common for embedded Linux applications.

OpenWRT uses it for example.

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