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Appendix

12.4.8 openssh

This file is part of the OpenSSH software.
The licences which components of this software fall under are as follows. First, we will sum-
marize and say that all components are under a BSD licence, or a licence more free than
that.
OpenSSH contains no GPL code.
1. * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
* All rights reserved
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* As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software
* can be used freely for any purpose. Any derived versions of this
* software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is
* incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be
* called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell".
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* However, I am not implying to give any licenses to any patents or
* copyrights held by third parties, and the software includes parts that
* are not under my direct control. As far as I know, all included
* source code is used in accordance with the relevant license agreements
* and can be used freely for any purpose (the GNU license being the most
* restrictive); see below for details.
[However, none of that term is relevant at this point in time. All of these restrictively li-
cenced software components which he talks about have been removed from OpenSSH,
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Note that any information and cryptographic algorithms used in this software are public-
ly available on the Internet and at any major bookstore, scientific library, and patent of-
fice worldwide. More information can be found e.g. at "http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto".
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RSA is no longer included, found in the OpenSSL library
IDEA is no longer included, its use is deprecated
DES is now external, in the OpenSSL library
GMP is no longer used, and instead we call BN code from OpenSSL
Zlib is now external, in a library
The make-ssh-known-hosts script is no longer included
TSS has been removed
MD5 is now external, in the OpenSSL library
RC4 support has been replaced with ARC4 support from OpenSSL
Blowfish is now external, in the OpenSSL library
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