On 04/28/2017 09:22 AM, John Newman wrote:
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:53:16AM -1100, Mirimir wrote:
| At 5:51pm on July 12, 1995, I sent an announcement about | SSH (Secure Shell) to the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list.
Funny, no?
Its funny, I forgot that ssh didn't start as openssh - it was, what, semi-commercial? Or the openBSD people just didn't like the license?
Yes, he took the Red Hat path. But that wasn't my point. My point was that people _announced stuff_ on the cypherpunks list. The first VPN service, Anonymizer, was announced on cypherpunks. So were Freenet and Tor, as I recall. And _cypherpunks_ remailers. But that's just how things go, I guess.
In any case I wonder if the commercial ssh people are still around...
Well, that's https://www.ssh.com/ :) I don't know how much business they get, though. I mean, ssh isn't _that_ hard to configure. Maybe for tunnels and stuff. Me, I'd just use OpenVPN.
OpenBSD did the same thing for Darren Reeds PF with IPF, another great project