freebsd-ports/security/lsh/pkg-descr
Will Andrews 28824c0b83 Add LSH, a login program similar to SSH. It depends on SECSH, which does
not require any patent-encumbered encryption algorithms, unlike SSH1, which
depends on RSA, and SSH2, which is not free (of course, these days, this is
not so true thanks to OpenSSH, but it's good to have alternatives!).

PR:		18879
Submitted by:	Eric Schwertfeger <eric@cybernut.com>
2000-06-02 02:56:29 +00:00

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lsh is a client that can connect to the corresponding lshd server. It uses
the SECSH protocol, which means that it is compatible with SSH 2.0, except
for file transfer, which is not part of SECSH.
SECSH uses compression and encryption algorithms that are unencumbered, and
lsh itself is GPL.
lsh is not as feature-rich as OpenSSH, as it doesn't currently support
password-protected keyrings, the SSH 1.X protocols, TCP wrappers, etc.
On the other hand, it doesn't require OpenSSL, and doesn't take a lot of
work to avoid patented algorithms.
Port author's notes on usage and common problems can be found at
WWW: http://gz.geekazoid.com/lsh/