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Re: libssh Installation


On Friday, February 8, 2019 10:29:23 PM CET Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Compiling libssh in Windows:
> 
> Download latest version using git:
> git clone https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git libssh
> 
> Download and install visual studio community 2017
> <https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/> and Cmake
> <https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.14.0-rc1/cmake-3.14.0
> -rc1-win64-x64.msi> .
> 
> libssh has some dependencies. The most important one is OpenSSL. You can
> get the precompiled headers form here
> <https://www.npcglib.org/~stathis/blog/precompiled-openssl/>. Make sure you
> download the VS2017 one.

You should be careful where you download OpenSSL as a binary from. There have 
been attempts to spread OpenSSL binaries with backdoors.

I would trust Microsoft in that regard.


	Andreas

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Re: libssh InstallationAlberto Garcia <agarciaillera@xxxxxxxxx>
Re: libssh InstallationAlberto Garcia <agarciaillera@xxxxxxxxx>
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