1 The search for a small Secure Shell server to fit on a laptop with 4
2 megs ram and no hard disk was fruitless, so Matt Johnston decided to
3 write his own, and Dropbear is the result. It implements various
4 features of the SSH 2 protocol, including X11 and Authentication Agent
5 forwarding. Dropbear is Open Source software, distributed under a
6 MIT-style license. It includes a server, client and tools to
7 generate server keys and to convert OpenSSH keys for Dropbear.
11 * A small memory footprint - Dropbear can compile to a 110kB
12 statically linked binary with uClibc (and only minimal options
14 * Implements X11 forwarding, and authentication-agent forwarding
16 * Compatible with OpenSSH ~/.ssh/authorized_keys public key
18 * Features can easily be disabled when compiling to save space.
19 * Preliminary TCP forwarding support (-L style only)