history: Tatu Ylonen announced SSH to cypherpunks in 1995
| At 5:51pm on July 12, 1995, I sent an announcement about | SSH (Secure Shell) to the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list. https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port Funny, no?
Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| At 5:51pm on July 12, 1995, I sent an announcement about | SSH (Secure Shell) to the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list.
The cypherpunks mailing list was started in 1992 so it's still very young and in it's early stage, right? Also noticed the "toad.com" domain name, the cypherpunks mailing list seems have used several different domain names and changed its underlying architecture several times.
On 04/23/2017 07:54 PM, Ray Chen wrote:
Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| At 5:51pm on July 12, 1995, I sent an announcement about | SSH (Secure Shell) to the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list.
The cypherpunks mailing list was started in 1992 so it's still very young and in it's early stage, right?
Right.
Also noticed the "toad.com" domain name, the cypherpunks mailing list seems have used several different domain names and changed its underlying architecture several times.
Yes, it's been a multi-list distributed list. As far as I know, this is the only one that's still active. There's a lot of dead wood out there.
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? In any case I wonder if the commercial ssh people are still around... OpenBSD did the same thing for Darren Reeds PF with IPF, another great project -- John
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:22:59PM -0400, 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?
In any case I wonder if the commercial ssh people are still around...
OpenBSD did the same thing for Darren Reeds PF with IPF, another great project
Actually, it was IPF that became PF, but in any case... I wonder how much the syntax of the pf config file (and pfctl syntax, table usage, etc) has diverged over the years.. -- John
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
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