I first read about this on March 6th being the Uber Geek that I am I always hear about this kind of thing first :
It's too bad mathematics can't bend to Congress's will.
Tune in next week, when Congress stands on the beach and starts commanding the tides.
Anyway, Congress can make commercial apps like Whatsapp have backdoors but they can't do it with open source projects like OpenSSH.OpenSSH is based in Canada and they have different laws on encryption and even on exporting it :
OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell[a]) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture.[4][5]
OpenSSH started as a fork of the free SSH program developed by Tatu Ylönen; later versions of Ylönen's SSH were proprietary software offered by SSH Communications Security.[6] OpenSSH was first released in 1999, and is currently developed as part of the OpenBSD operating system.
OpenSSH is not a single computer program, but rather a suite of programs that serve as alternatives to unencrypted protocols like Telnet and FTP. OpenSSH is integrated into several operating systems,[7][8] while the portable version is available as a package in other systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH
SSH File Transfer Protocol
In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (also Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream. It was designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an extension of the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) version 2.0 to provide secure file transfer capabilities. The IETF Internet Draft states that, even though this protocol is described in the context of the SSH-2 protocol, it could be used in a number of different applications, such as secure file transfer over Transport Layer Security (TLS) and transfer of management information in VPN applications.
This protocol assumes that it is run over a secure channel, such as SSH, that the server has already authenticated the client, and that the identity of the client user is available to the protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_Fi...nsfer_Protocol
One can configure OpenSSH to be even more secure from the NSA too. The NSA can't crack certain OpenSSH traffick but it can already crack VPN IPSEC connections AFAIK.
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