<p dir="ltr">Thanks for telling us, Logan. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'll definitely upgrade OpenSSH on my Linux servers as soon as the new version is available. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Avinash </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2013 10:32 AM, "Loganaden Velvindron" <<a href="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
Following the recent allegations made by Edward Snowden concerning massive NSA surveillance[0], </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
we have been working on making <span style="background-color:transparent">substancial changes to OpenSSH and other critical components. We've implemented a new cipher known as chacha20/poly1305[1].</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">We believe that this cipher is free from NSA influence, and that the design has been vigourously peer reviewed.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
We strongly believe that it's very important for people to already start preparing for the upgrade
 by scheduling downtime windows <span style="background-color:transparent">for a smooth transition for the upcoming OpenSSH 6.5 release.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">Kind regards,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
//Logan</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">C-x-C-c</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">[0] <a href="http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-bullrun-brief-propublica-13-0905.pdf" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-bullrun-brief-propublica-13-0905.pdf</a> (page 4).</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">[1] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138499475823794&w=2" target="_blank">http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138499475823794&w=2</a><br>
</div></div></div><br>__________________________________________________________<br>
Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) Discuss mailing list<br>
Website: <a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">http://lugm.org</a><br>
Mailing list archive: <a href="http://discuss.lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_discuss.lugm.org/" target="_blank">http://discuss.lugm.org/pipermail/discuss_discuss.lugm.org/</a><br>
Forum: <a href="http://lugm.org/forum/" target="_blank">http://lugm.org/forum/</a><br>
IRC: #<a href="http://linux.mu" target="_blank">linux.mu</a> on Freenode<br></blockquote></div>