Comment by ComputerGuru
13 years ago
iirc, it's off by default?
Even when enabled, it'll only not encrypt binary blobs; TTY input will remain encrypted. Obviously many times that is not an option, but sometimes it is.
13 years ago
iirc, it's off by default?
Even when enabled, it'll only not encrypt binary blobs; TTY input will remain encrypted. Obviously many times that is not an option, but sometimes it is.
So you are not worried about the confidentiality of your data?
Leaving aside the crypto worries and concerns over why it was not merged upstream can you imagine being the Debian package maintainer? Having to manage and triage bug reports with two upstreams? And then having to keep track of whether the bug occurred when HPN initiated a connection to pristine upstream, pristine connects to HPN or HPN connects to HPN? If you want to get an idea of the headache involved site:debian.org ssh hpn.
Have you read why upstream never merged it? The pleas for funding and lack of maintainer time do not give you cause for concern?