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@@ -4,5 +4,11 @@ rsh, rcp, etc. and provide secure encrypted communications between two
untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary
TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
+OpenSSH is a version of Secure Shell based upon a much less encumbered
+SSH version 1.2.12, which has a BSD-style license. Maintained by the
+OpenBSD project, this is the most free and secure SSH implementation
+in the world. OpenSSH supports SSH protocol version 1.5 and has all
+known bugs from SSH fixed.
+
- Brian Feldman
green@FreeBSD.org