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Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:02:56 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssh-agent eats 80% cpu time
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:16:02PM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> I was under the impression that it was a Bad Idea to run ssh-agent on
> Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00063.html (look
> for the words FUNDAMENTALLY INSECURE).  Does anyone know if this is
> really the case?

You *did* realize that this message is over two years old, don't you?
The "fundamentally insecureness" has been solved using a securing
mechanism for AF_UNIX sockets (courtesy Egor Duda, first implementation
2001-06-30).

Corinna

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