history: Tatu Ylonen announced SSH to cypherpunks in 1995

[John Newman]

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 at toad.com mailing list.
> > 
> > https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port
> > 
> > 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 
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