| MacSSH is a modified version of BetterTelnet with SSH2 support. Based on BetterTelnet, Copyright © 1997-1998 Rolf Braun Based on lsh, Copyright © 2000 Niels Möller Based on GUSI, Copyright © 1992-2000 Matthias Neeracher
MacSSH has received the 5 lock award from SecureMac |
Version 2.1fc3 is now available. see the ChangeLog for modifications. NEW: For those needing an SFTP client for MacOS (from 8.1 to X, both SSH1 and SSH2), download this version 1.0.2 of MacSFTP Carbon (or this same version of MacSFTP Classic if you don't use CarbonLib). Note that this application is not based on lsh, but on OpenSSH, and is a $25 shareware with a 15 days trial period. Here's the ChangeLog for MacSFTP. If you have any questions, please check this FAQ before emailing me.
| Choose Your MacOS Binaries Version (sit or hqx): MacSSH PPC.sit or MacSSH PPC.sit.hqx MacSSH 68k.sit or MacSSH 68k.sit.hqx note that '.hqx' files are exactly the same as the '.sit', but about 40% bigger, and are for browsers unable to deal with 8 bit '.sit' files.
The source code is now available via SourceForge |
LSH IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. IT WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY SECURITY ON SYSTEMS THAT LACK /dev/random. THERE MAY BE OTHER SERIOUS BUGS THAT MAKE IT TOTALLY INSECURE. If you are interested in lsh evolutions, bugs fixes etc..., you may want to subscribe to the psst-list. You can subscribe to it by sending mail with a message body containing just the word subscribe on its own. You'll be asked to confirm your subscription by return of mail. |
| Why: I like the Macintosh, and I needed to access Linux boxes through Internet securely. The only SSH2 client for MacOS that I could find is a commercial product that costs more than $100, and it crashes my Mac when closing a session... Since it's best to do things by oneself, here's MacSSH. Copyright: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file COPYING for details. Warranty: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the warranty of merchantability or fitness for any purpose. The entire risk of operation this program, as well as the risk of quality and performance, resides solely with you! In no event will any of the program authors be liable for any damage caused by the operation, or non-operation, of this program! From Niels original docs: lsh is written by Niels Möller, and distributed under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (see the file COPYING.txt for details). Several parts of lsh, in particular tcpforwarding, public-key user authentication, and the lsh_proxy program, were contributed by Balázs Scheidler. Many other people have written free code which is used in lsh.
TWOFISH |  | implementation by Ruud de Rooij. Released under the LGPL.
BLOWFISH |  | implementation from Werner Koch's and FSF's GNU Privacy Guard.Released under the GPL.
CAST |  | implementation by Steve Reid. Released into the public domain.
DES |  | implementation by Dana L. How. Released under the LGPL.
IDEA |  | implementation originally by Xeejia Lai, optimized by Colin Plumb.Released into the public domain.
GMP |  | the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library, was written by Torbjörn Granlund and many contributors. It is not actually included in lsh, but it is needed for all public key computations. GMP is released under the LPGL.
MD5 |  | implementation by Colin Plumb, somewhat hacked by Andrew Kuchling.Released into the public domain.
Rijndael |  | implementation by Rafael Sevilla. Released under the LGPL.
SHA |  | implementation by Peter Gutmann, somewhat hacked by Andrew Kuchling. Released into the public domain.
Serpent |  | implementation by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen, somewhat hacked by Rafael Sevilla. Released under the GPL.
TCPUTILS |  | networking code by Thomas Bellman. Released into the public domain.
POLL |  | emulation code (for systems that have select(), but not poll()) written by Sean Reifschneider, released for unlimited use.
SEXP |  | parsing code has some parts in common with Ron Rivest's parser. Distributed under the GPL with permission.
ARGP GETOPT |  | argp and getopt option parsing from the the GNU C library, released under the LGPL.

Again, please check this FAQ before emailing me. You may find the answer there...
Copyright © 2000-2002 Jean-Pierre Stierlin