(Replying to myself) On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > Dropbear appears to be put together from many pieces, all of which seem to > carry a BSD-compatible license (IANAL etc etc). It is currently in ports > (security/dropbear) and the built, stripped binary appear to "only" be 53K > smaller than the OpenSSH one. Because an sshd is a network daemon, security > is of course a concern -- Is the 53K of saved space in /rescue (But > additional space somewhere else for the convert and key utilities) worth the > hassles of tracking upstream distributions of two seperate sshds? I > personally tend to think not, but I'm open for comments on this one. Well, let me correct the size statement before someone else does. It would help if I actually compared the size of static versions of these files! It's late... Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >Received on Thu Dec 16 2004 - 04:55:06 UTC
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