Re: IT security people sleep well

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Adrian Chadd wrote:

> A friend of mine here at uni wrote a much, much smaller sshd replacement
> he calls "dropbear". Its much, much smaller than sshd. Much smaller.
>
> http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
>
> I think its very very cute. Perhaps some vendors with small memory
> footprints would consider implementing this kind of tiny sshd?

Several third party firmwares for the linksys wrt54g wireless AP + 
"router" (which, of course, is owned by brand C) implement sshd using 
dropbear. For example, the ones at sveasoft, and at h.vu.wifi-box.net

        srs

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