Post Ad5fUtGR1wzk9b6MNM by mgerdts@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AcuZKWXm9yZbMDQFeK by dangoodin@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-17T04:11:15Z
       
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       Did you or someone you know work with SSH back in the late 90s and early 2000s? I'd love to get some perspective on something. Please DM me by Signal.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcuZKXEJbobJU9KDxI by cks@mastodon.social
       2023-12-17T17:53:56Z
       
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       @dangoodin I was a university sysadmin (University of Toronto) at the time SSH was released, and my memory is that we jumped on it basically immediately because it was clearly better than rsh/rlogin. Not only was it more secure, it also had X forwarding over SSH (a big help if you worked from Unix workstations, as was the case for us) and I think various other conveniences.(We built it ourselves from source on our Unix machines, as was common at the time.)
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad5fUTuFJJOJVXWmoq by dangoodin@infosec.exchange
       2023-12-17T05:54:24Z
       
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       @lyda How so?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad5fUcOJlOCPp7euno by joelitics@fosstodon.org
       2023-12-17T05:59:43Z
       
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       @dangoodin @lyda I still have nightmares about seeding PRNG!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad5fUlVjrAU06kCT7Q by miah@hachyderm.io
       2023-12-18T00:05:07Z
       
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       @joelitics @dangoodin @lyda Ah ya, many systems of that era didn't have a build in RNG, and just getting SSLeay (precursor to OpenSSL) to compile was _an exercise_. Especially on "weird" systems like SCO OpenServer / UNIXWare, you had to hope that stuff was packaged on the Skunkworks CD's.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad5fUtGR1wzk9b6MNM by mgerdts@mastodon.social
       2023-12-18T00:19:42Z
       
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       @miah @joelitics @dangoodin @lyda lack of /dev/[u]random on #Solaris was such a pain. When Jonathan Schwartz (?) said that #Sun would treat incompatibility with Linux as a bug, I got that bug filed by a service request and it was implemented not long afterwards.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad5ppO6D5xOh7WjQCu by kai@ajin.la
       2023-12-18T02:54:34Z
       
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       @dangoodin Did you or someone you love work with SSH back in the late 90s and early 2000s? You may be entitled to compensation.