Dropbear 0.50 release
Matt Johnston
matt at ucc.asn.au
Thu Aug 9 00:08:58 WST 2007
Hi.
Dropbear 0.50 is released. It has a few small features and a
few bugfixes. The most significant improvement is probably
the network performance.
Cheers,
Matt
0.50 - Wed 8 August 2007
- Add DROPBEAR_PASSWORD environment variable to specify a dbclient password
- Use /dev/urandom by default, since that's what everyone does anyway
- Correct vfork() use for uClinux in scp
(thanks to Alex Landau)
- Exit with an exit code of 1 if dropbear can't bind to any ports
(thanks to Nicolai Ehemann)
- Improve network performance and add a -W <receive_window> argument for
adjusting the tradeoff between network performance and memory consumption.
- Fix a problem where reply packets could be sent during key exchange,
in violation of the SSH spec. This could manifest itself with connections
being terminated after 8 hours with new TCP-forward connections being
established.
- Add -K <keepalive_time> argument, ensuring that data is transmitted
over the connection at least every N seconds.
- dropbearkey will no longer generate DSS keys of sizes other than 1024
bits, as required by the DSS specification. (Other sizes are still
accepted for use to provide backwards compatibility).
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