Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-18 Severity: normal "Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. It is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh and rcp, and can be used to provide rdist, and rsync with a secure communication channel."
I took over ssh-nonfree a few months ago because I was interested in its Kerberos 5 support, which I use routinely. (At the time, that code was specific to ssh-nonfree; OpenSSH gained compatible code only a few weeks ago.) Unfortunately, maintaining this package from within the US has proven to be a major hassle: although the EAR allows me to re-export ssh-nonfree as is, restrictions seem to apply once I integrate domestic crypto code (in this case, MIT krb5; Heimdal might have worked, but MIT's implementation is more mature). Moreover, my interest in the package is essentially nil now that OpenSSH finally includes compatible krb5 support -- particularly given that Sam Hartman <hartmans> has announced his intent to produce OpenSSH packages with that code enabled. As such, I am orphaning ssh-nonfree. (I'd also like to suggest that it should disappear from the archive once Woody has been released unless it has a new maintainer by then.) -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tux 2.4.16 #1 SMP Sun Dec 9 18:35:31 EST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
