From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) From: Jeff Sickel In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:40:57 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9931E00A-AE5D-4528-B072-AADB5EC00182@corpus-callosum.com> References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page Topicbox-Message-UUID: 688267e6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation. > > This has obvious utility, but I'm hesitant to add it without a > mentor who can vouch for its suitability for a summer-sized > student project, and who'd be willing to mentor a good > proposal for it. To me, it seems larger than that, but I'd be > happy to be wrong. Any takers? Let's not take this one completely off the table yet. SSHv2 would be extremely useful in helping open up communication with external systems again. I use to find sshnet extremely viable in a mixed network where now I'm just using sshv2 to tunnel in overly complicated startup scripts. If someone is interested, with a predisposition towards security issues, including a track record of tackling such a task, I'd say we encourage it. Getting us one step closer to dealing with the default toolchain for many systems would help for any future projects. -jas