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Diffstat (limited to 'OVERVIEW')
| -rw-r--r-- | OVERVIEW | 24 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ these programs. - These provide an arbitrary size buffer, where data can be appended. Data can be consumed from either end. The code is used heavily - throughout ssh. The basic buffer manipulation functions are in - buffer.c (header buffer.h), and additional code to manipulate specific - data types is in bufaux.c. + throughout ssh. The buffer manipulation functions are in + sshbuf*.c (header sshbuf.h). Compression Library @@ -35,11 +34,12 @@ these programs. - Ssh contains several encryption algorithms. These are all accessed through the cipher.h interface. The interface code is - in cipher.c, and the implementations are in libc. + in cipher.c, and the implementations are either in libc or + LibreSSL. Multiple Precision Integer Library - - Uses the SSLeay BIGNUM sublibrary. + - Uses the LibreSSL BIGNUM sublibrary. Random Numbers @@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ these programs. code in packet.c does not concern itself with packet types or their execution; it contains code to build packets, to receive them and extract data from them, and the code to compress and/or encrypt - packets. CRC code comes from crc32.c. + packets. - The code in packet.c calls the buffer manipulation routines - (buffer.c, bufaux.c), compression routines (compress.c, zlib), - and the encryption routines. + (buffer.c, bufaux.c), compression routines (zlib), and the + encryption routines. X11, TCP/IP, and Agent forwarding @@ -106,12 +106,6 @@ these programs. calls client_loop in clientloop.c. This does the real work for the session. - - The client is suid root. It tries to temporarily give up this - rights while reading the configuration data. The root - privileges are only used to make the connection (from a - privileged socket). Any extra privileges are dropped before - calling ssh_login. - Pseudo-tty manipulation and tty modes - Code to allocate and use a pseudo tty is in pty.c. Code to @@ -165,4 +159,4 @@ these programs. uidswap.c uid-swapping xmalloc.c "safe" malloc routines -$OpenBSD: OVERVIEW,v 1.11 2006/08/03 03:34:41 deraadt Exp $ +$OpenBSD: OVERVIEW,v 1.15 2018/10/23 05:56:35 djm Exp $ |