[Toybox] features

stephen Turner stephen.n.turner at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 08:21:17 PDT 2014


Very informative, thanks. Looks like I have some reading to do.
On Jun 7, 2014 12:50 AM, "Isaac Dunham" <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:53:17PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> > 2014-06-06 18:12 GMT+02:00 stephen Turner <stephen.n.turner at gmail.com>:
> > > Rob, have you given any thought into adding a embedded ssh like
> dropbear to
> > > toybox?
> >
> > or like tinyssh :)
> >
> > http://tinyssh.org/index.html
>
> Features:
> ...
> Tinyssh doesn't have...scp, sftp
> ...using NaCL/TweetNaCL
>
> I lost interest there.
> scp and sftp are *the* main use I have for ssh. I have three computers
> of my own (desktop and two laptops, all Linux), there's another one
> (Windows) the family uses, and I find that the best way to copy something
> from a to b is to use scp or something like FileZilla.
>
> And no, I'm not interested in adding another daemon, transferring
> files in plain mode, or having to run commands on both ends.
>
> As far as the second feature I quote goes, see:
> landley.net/notes.html#31-03-2014
>
> dropbear is a permissively licensed mcb that gets a good workout. Seems
> like it fits with toybox.
> And libtomcrypt seems like the better place to start, should an ssh
> server and client be desired.
>
> I note also that there's yet another small ssh server, moussh:
> ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/local/src/moussh
> The developer was at one point considering using some of the libtom*
> libraries; it currently needs gmp and a set of homegrown crypto libs.
> It does have one or two rather frightening notes: it requires a
> special preprocessor (included) or a version of gcc patched to support
> "labeled control structure", whatever that is.
>
> While we're talking about crypto, I might as well mention axtls.
> It's a small BSD-licensed TLS1 library that uses kconfig with perhaps
> too many options (what *FLAGS you want, which keys/certificates, openssl
> API, ...).
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Dunham
>
>
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