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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by fsckboy on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:00PM (#32693813)
OpenBSD does great work, but for the record OpenSSH started as a fork of the free SSH program developed by Tatu Ylönen; later versions of Ylönen's SSH were proprietary software offered by SSH Communications Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH

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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by chasil on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:17PM (#32694054)
Realistically, OpenBSD completely reimplemented protocol 2 themselves.

Since nobody uses protocol 1 anymore, very little of the original code from Tatu Ylönen remains in operation with default settings.

ps I have had to use the SSH commercial release under VMS, and the compatibilities with OpenSSH are quite unpleasant.

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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by gigantaure on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:39PM (#32694323)
i just read that page[1] earlier this week. this gives a great view on the amount of work performed by the openssh project after the fork of the last open source version.

[1] https://www.openssh.com/history.html

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Re:OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutab... by fsckboy on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:15AM (#32700126)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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