Re: F28 System Wide Change: Switch libcurl to use libssh instead of libssh2

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On 12/04/2017 07:47 AM, Jan Kurik wrote:
libcurl currently uses libssh2 to implement the SSH layer of SCP and
SFTP protocols. The libssh2 library uses outdated crypto algorithms
and lacks important features like GSS-API authentication. After
implementing this change, libcurl will use the libssh library instead,
which is now more secure, feature-complete, and with more active
upstream community.

They are both equally active. If you were worried about ECDSA support, guess what? Libssh2 now supports it:

https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/41

I'm not sure this change is really warranted.
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