Colin Watson: GSS-API support split out from main Debian OpenSSH packages

In an option review I did in 2024, shortly after the xz-utils backdoor, I explained that having GSS-API authentication and key exchange support in the main OpenSSH packages is problematic. The key exchange patch is large and intrusive. Furthermore, even linking to the necessary libraries is not without risk: as the Ebury malware attack demonstrated way back in 2009, each extra library linked into security-critical daemons such as sshd (or nowadays into its privilege-separated helper programs) can modify the behaviour…

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