openssh unix dev - Jan 2001 - OpenSSH on PalmOS possible?

A thought has been bugging me for a month or so, but I don't know where to
look for the answer. Would it be possible to port the OpenSSH ssh client to
PalmOS and other handheld OS'es like Symbian (EPOC) or PocketPC?

Is the processor on PDA's fast enough? Would many libraries have to be
ported aswell? I know that PalmOS and EPOC has an IP stack implemented..

Since the development tools and documentation is freely available (at least
for PalmOS) a ported version would be able to be distributed without
restrictions, and would be very useful for those emergency situations when
you _have_ to get to the shell when you are out travelling or whatever.. I
know I've missed it a lot of times..

Ideas? Ongoing projects in this direction? I'd love to hear about it..

Thanks..

Daniel Brandt
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check out http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/

openssh is overkill for palmos.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Daniel Brandt wrote:
> A thought has been bugging me for a month or so, but I don't know where
to
> look for the answer. Would it be possible to port the OpenSSH ssh client to
> PalmOS and other handheld OS'es like Symbian (EPOC) or PocketPC?
There is a free (software) SSH implementation for PalmOS available at
http://www.ai/~iang/TGssh/ I think it is only protocol 1.

Porting OpenSSH would be a moderately difficult task because it is 
pretty closely tied to POSIX and Berkeley sockets, which (IIRC) is 
quite far from the Palm API.
> Is the processor on PDA's fast enough? Would many libraries have to be
> ported aswell? I know that PalmOS and EPOC has an IP stack implemented..
Memory may be an issue, but cipher speed probably wouldn't. The slow 
serial speeds and the much slower speed of entering characers by graffiti
will give the CPU plenty of time to catch up.

-d

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