Problems with the latest dropbear 2024.86 build

[Kazuo Kuroi]

Greetings,

In order to better enumerate the problems the current version of drop bear has on irix 6.5, I rebuilt it and documented everything: 

1. The SIGCLD bug I described and documented still exists. 
2. After doing some in-depth testing, basically ed25519 and ECDSA are at minimum broken because SSH complains of a incorrect signature. 
3. It functions unreliably and often hangs while trying to connect. 

I don't really know what else to give you to chew on because the architecture changed a lot from when we fixed it in 2019. I attempted to reapply my fixes but they did not fix the problem. 

I did manage to get a version of 2020.79 to build but again even though it builds cleanly, it breaks in unpredictable ways. 

I unfortunately don't have enough background to be able to continue poking at this and figuring it out on my own so if someone would like to help get a later version of dropbear actually working, they can reach out to me. I am also going to contact people in the community and see if they can poke around at it. 

I appreciate that this project has been around. Don't get me wrong. I just feel like we are kind of second class on support and with open SSH basically leaving people like us behind that doesn't give us a lot of good options. 

Thank you for reading