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From: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is IUSE=hpn mandatory in openssh ?
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:36:00
Message-Id: 5339A774.2090707@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is IUSE=hpn mandatory in openssh ? by Alex Xu
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4 On 03/31/2014 01:15 PM, Alex Xu wrote:
5 > On 31/03/14 03:36 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
6 >> So, I'm interested... How widely used is the HPN patch set? Are there
7 >> any good indications that it doesn't negatively impact security?
8 >
9 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292932
10 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693424
11 >
12 > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2007-July/105570.html
13 >
14 > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openssh-hpn/
15 >
16 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/162253
17 >
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19 Those bug reports are good arguments to have HPN as a feature in openssh.
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21 And most of them now many years old and still open.
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23 That's an argument to rethink if HPN should be activated quietly.
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27 MfG/Sincerely
28 Toralf Förster
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is IUSE=hpn mandatory in openssh ? "Marcin Mirosław" <marcin@×××××.pl>