From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-27 17:22:34 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 01:22:34 +0800
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 01:22:34 +0800
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: ssh - How widely used?
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Adam Shostack writes:
> Theres a windows version, mac is under vauge development. SSH
> is pretty cool, but the code base is somewhat messy, and its shows
> signs of its origins in things like systems calls not having their
> return values checked.
>
> Despite all this, I use it, like it, and recomend it for use
> in systems not likely to come under attack by professionals.
I actually think its probably okay even for systems that might come
under professional attack -- I don't recommend it for use on systems
that are mission critical, though, like systems running transactions
and such. Indeed, I don't recommend running ANYTHING on such systems
unless you are really, really, really careful about what you are
running and where you are running it from.
.pm
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