For OpenWRT, AsusWRT etc, I believe they use dropbear ssh by default instead of OpenSSH, which apparently isn't affected?

Yes, correct for OpenWrt. OpenWrt defaults to dropbear for both server and client. However, more advanced users may optionally choose to replace it with OpenSSH, or install OpenSSH side-by-side, to gain additional features of OpenSSH.

  > root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release | grep DISTRIB_RELEASE
  > DISTRIB_RELEASE='25.12.6'

  > root@OpenWrt:~# which ssh
  > /usr/bin/ssh
  > root@OpenWrt:~# ssh -V
  > Dropbear v2025.89
  > root@OpenWrt:~# ldd /usr/bin/ssh
  >  /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7f8e120000)
  >  libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7f8e0b8000)
  >  libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7f8e120000)

  > root@OpenWrt:~# which dropbear
  > /usr/sbin/dropbear
  > root@OpenWrt:~# dropbear -V
  > Dropbear v2025.89
  > root@OpenWrt:~# ldd /usr/sbin/dropbear
  >  /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7fbb900000)
  >  libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7fbb898000)
  >  libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0x7fbb900000)

  > root@OpenWrt:~# apk search openssh
  > openssh-client-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-client-utils-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-keygen-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-moduli-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-server-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-server-pam-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-sftp-avahi-service-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-sftp-client-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-sftp-server-10.6_p1-r2
  > openssh-sk-helper-10.6_p1-r2

I've just tried with my AsusWRT (3.0.0.4.386_69196) and didn't get it to work

gregor@krekrm3 ~ % ssh root@192.168.1.1 root@192.168.1.1's password: Permission denied, please try again. root@192.168.1.1's password: Permission denied, please try again. root@192.168.1.1's password: Connection closed by 192.168.1.1 port 22

Dropbear added the 100 character password limit in 2019.77, so earlier versions might be susceptible.

Nope, they are OK.

I've been using a single letter "fake" tld for my internal LAN DNS zone. Looks like ICANN requires 3+ letters in tld applications, so hopefully should be safe for quite a while.

If that were to ever change, I bet there's a certain billionaire who'd be very interested in the .x gTLD.

First ever pTLD?

Blocked here too, never visited the site before. Should we "flag" the story for this, or?

I remember setting up a new git CI build server many years ago, which at the time rather quickly started failing build pipelines in a nodejs css frontend build script, turns out there was something funky with the AMD processor's RDRAND. A motherboard BIOS flash update fixed it.

https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/3151