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SSH -- we love itSSH -- we love itPosted Aug 12, 2004 15:17 UTC (Thu) by stuart (subscriber, #623)In reply to: SSH? by Duncan Parent article: Sarge is coming
fear not, Gentoo has copied Debian traditions again.
In Debian (well let's say in Woody/Debian 3.0 for clarity):
<troll> Mind you I'd worry more about a Gentoo SSHd -- with all those users who insist on shonky pointless recompilation for some nefarious goal of speed -- who's to say important crypto code will not get miscompiled? </troll>
Stu.
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SSH -- we love it Posted Aug 13, 2004 2:48 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] You say "copied" as if it's a bad thing. You should be proud that Debian's ideas are being used -- it means people think they're good.
SSH -- we love it Posted Aug 13, 2004 19:38 UTC (Fri) by set (guest, #4788) [Link] First, the speculation about miscompiled crypto code is almost pure fud;we arent baking soufles here-- compilation should be deterministic, modulo flakey hardware or compiler bugs. If you have the former, you arent any safer running someone elses binary, and if you have the latter, so could your distributer. Second, its not about the speed, its about control, customisation, and integration. Ones goal may be 'speed', in optimizing for a specific arch, or it may something else, like 'size'. The point is that compiling from source allows you to make those decisions. (and compiler flags are just the tip of the iceberg in what you can configure.) Gentoo isnt for everyone, but if you had to mischaracterize them, it might be more as control freaks rather than speed freaks;)
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