[MERGE] Support for Putty SSH implementation

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:49:20PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> Robey Pointer wrote:
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> > On 10 Jan 2007, at 9:03, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> >> I don't think paramiko uses Openssh, bzr uses openssh and the passes
> >> that connection off to paramiko.
> >>
> >> Paramiko uses a "Transport" layer (which isn't a bzr Transport)
> >>
> >> which we hook into with SSHSubprocess.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's correct, paramiko doesn't tie into any other executables. 
> > The idea was to be a pure-python implementation (except for pyCrypto,
> > which I incorrectly assumed was on track to migrate into python's stdlib).
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> > But I'm happy to support using only the sftp layer, like bazaar does if
> > it finds an ssh executable.
> > 
> > robey
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> I thought pycrypto couldn't be included in the stdlib because of crypto
> export restrictions.
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> My understanding of current US Export law is that you can export source
> code, but not compiled binaries. (Which is a big load of crock, but still).

I very much doubt that. The Debian project has switched to including
crypto in main, while previously crypto was in a non-US section. If
Debian can, Python surely can.

Of course, that doesn't help Robey one bit :/

Wouter van Heyst
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