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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Why is IUSE=hpn mandatory in openssh ?
From:       Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster () gmx ! de>
Date:       2014-03-31 17:35:48
Message-ID: 5339A774.2090707 () gmx ! de
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On 03/31/2014 01:15 PM, Alex Xu wrote:
> On 31/03/14 03:36 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> So, I'm interested... How widely used is the HPN patch set? Are there
>> any good indications that it doesn't negatively impact security?
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292932
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693424
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2007-July/105570.html
> 
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openssh-hpn/
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/162253
> 

Those bug reports are good arguments to have HPN as a feature in openssh.

And most of them now many years old and still open.

That's an argument to rethink if HPN should be activated quietly.


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MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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