On 1/28/22 17:28, rapier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm Chris Rapier and I'm in the process of following the directions for > the inclusion of a new package into Fedora. I'm the primary developer of > hpn-ssh, a series of patches against OpenSSH to provide additional > functionality and performance to OpenSSH. I've been maintaining and > extending this code for 15 to 18 years now. I've worked on a number of > projects include web100 (which led to the development of autotuning > receive buffers), web10g, the visible human project, testrig2.0, and so > forth. All of the work I do is provided to the public with minimal > license restrictions (usually BSD). > > We've been able to do a lot to make OpenSSH faster and more flexible for > a number of different communities over the years. While we primarily > focused on the high performance networking community (hence the hpn part > of the name) we've seen users in most every domain - from home users to > major corporations and governments. What we've never had is a package or > a place to easily distribute that package to the redhat community. I'm > hoping someone can take a look the request I've submitted and be willing > to sponsor me. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2047943 > > I work at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (part of Carnegie Mellon > University) as a research scientist and developer. hpn-ssh is one of the > first projects I took on solo. I've been fortunate enough to get support > for it over the years, most recently with a grant from the National > Science Foundation. I'm committed to maintaining this package for as > long as the community is interested in it (and then some). > > Thanks for your time, > > Chris Rapier This is awesome! That said, have you considered submitting as many patches as possible upstream? That way *all* OpenSSH users would benefit. I know they have rejected some of the changes (such as NULL ciphers) for security reasons, but others might be accepted. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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