Re: [9fans] GSoC application & ideas page

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Wed Mar 14 14:03:34 EDT 2012, blstuart@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > >> I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation.
> > > 
> > > ...
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> As Erik said, there is a substantial effort here, probably
> more than we could expect of a student during a summer.
> However, I can now say that the effort has been made, and
> something more of an announcement will be forthcoming.
> It'll probably be at least a few days, but a native SSHv2
> implementation does exist.
> 
> >  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.
> 
> There's not a direct replacement for sshnet per se in this
> implementation, but here ssh becomes a protocol sitting in
> /net.  So it should be pretty easy to tunnel just about
> anything, and I suspect that the changes needed to sshnet
> would be relatively minor and would cut out all the SSH
> protocol bits.

boo-ya!

- erik