P R E S S R E L E A S E OpenSSH: Secure Shell integrated into
OpenBSD Secure communications package no longer third-party add-
on [October 25, 1999: Calgary, Canada] -- The OpenBSD developers
are pleased to announce the release of OpenSSH, a free
implementation of the popular Secure Shell encrypted
communications package. OpenSSH, to be released with OpenBSD
2.6, is compatible with both SSH 1.3 and 1.5 protocols and
dodges most restrictions on the free distribution of strong
cryptography. OpenSSH is based on a free release of SSH by Tatu
Ylonen, with major changes to remove proprietary code and bring
it up to current security and functionality standards. Secure
Shell operates like the popular TELNET remote terminal package
but with an encrypted link between the user and the remote
server. SSH also allows "tunnelling" of network services through
the scrambled connection for added privacy. OpenSSH has been
tested to interoperate with ssh-1.2.27 from SSH Communications,
and the TTSSH and SecureCRT Windows clients