Dropbear 2013.62 released
Matt Johnston
matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Dec 3 22:04:56 WST 2013
Hi,
I've put up Dropbear 2013.62. It has only a few changes
since the 2013.61test release. The major features of 2013.61test
are ECC support (significantly faster connections) and
generating hostkeys automatically.
Downloads as usual at
https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html or
https://dropbear.nl/mirror/dropbear.html
Cheers,
Matt
2013.62 - Tuesday 3 December 2013
- Disable "interactive" QoS connection options when a connection doesn't
have a PTY (eg scp, rsync). Thanks to Catalin Patulea for the patch.
- Log when a hostkey is generated with -R, fix some bugs in handling server
hostkey commandline options
- Fix crash in Dropbearconvert and 521 bit key, reported by NiLuJe
- Update config.guess and config.sub again
2013.61test - Thursday 14 November 2013
- ECC (elliptic curve) support. Supports ECDSA hostkeys (requires new keys to
be generated) and ECDH for setting up encryption keys (no intervention
required). This is significantly faster.
- curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org support for setting up encryption keys. This is
another elliptic curve mode with less potential of NSA interference in
algorithm parameters. curve25519-donna code thanks to Adam Langley
- -R option to automatically generate hostkeys. This is recommended for
embedded platforms since it allows the system random number device
/dev/urandom a longer startup time to generate a secure seed before the
hostkey is required.
- Compile fixes for old vendor compilers like Tru64 from Daniel Richard G.
- Make authorized_keys handling more robust, don't exit encountering
malformed lines. Thanks to Lorin Hochstein and Mark Stillwell
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