Re: First impression on NetBSD-1.5_BETA

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:17:17PM +0000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:01:38AM +0300, Petri Koistinen wrote:
> > Following one is not bug either. It´s about ssh and sshd.
> > 
> > As I tried to start sshd, I got this message:
> > no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto. See ssl(8)
> 
>   There is no crypto installation package for this BETA snapshot. I guess
>   thats the problem. This package isn't/wasn't always available because of
>   export restrictions.

No, its not.

a) the INSTWDCPCM kernel didn't have the

pseudo-device rnd

which openssh requires to work. (Well, there are hacks, but they tend to
encourage the user to use no real randomness at all.)

b) some encryption methods aren't in the base distribution, because they are
patented in some regions of the world (e.g., IDEA; in parts of Europe) and not
freely usable.

But you can use, e.g., blowfish out of the box fine, when your kernel rnds.

Regards,
        Ignatios