Is MacPort's SSH more secure than Apple's SSH?

[js]

You might want to read these changelogs.
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.6
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.7

On 10/23/07, Jose Hales-Garcia <jose at stat.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> I've had an unusual episode of DoS attacks on SSH 4.5 (the one that
> comes with Tiger and patched with Security Update 2007-003[1]).  The
> SSHD processes are left hanging and the system eventually runs out of
> TTYs.
>
> I installed MacPorts' SSH 4.7.  Besides the fact that it's running
> off of a slightly more obscure port and I've made changes in the
> sshd_config file to help make SSHD more robust, is there something
> inherently more robust about MacPorts' version of SSH?  It is version
> 4.7 as opposed to version 4.5.  Also, I'm assuming it's not dependent
> on the whatever makes Apple's implementation susceptible to it's
> particular problems.  Is that a correct assumption?
>
> Thanks,
> Jose
>
> [1] http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
>
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