[Ach] KexAlgorithms: curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org

Axel Hübl axel.huebl at web.de
Tue Jan 7 09:52:01 CET 2014


If I am not mistaken, the changes already went in the main repo but the
pdf was not recompiled since Jan 4th :)

Best,
Axel
On 07.01.2014 09:48, Andy Wenk wrote:
> On 7 January 2014 00:56, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org
> <mailto:azet at azet.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     James Cloos wrote:
>     >>>> curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org <mailto:curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org>
>     >
>     > It is in the openbsd and portable-openssh cvs repos.
>     >
>     > Expect it in the next release.
>     >
>     > It works well.
>     >
>     > Cvs also has the chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
>     <mailto:chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com> cipher and
>     > ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com
>     <mailto:ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com> & ssh-ed25519 key pairs.
>     >
>     > curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org <mailto:curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org>
>     depends on HAVE_EVP_SHA256
>     > and is the highest pref kex when available.
>     >
>     > The ed25519 keys are second in pref to ECDSA (but the ECDSA keys
>     > are only available if OPENSSL_HAS_ECC; ed25519 is not so limited).
>     >
>     > chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com
>     <mailto:chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com> is lower in the default prefs.
> 
>     Thanks for clearing that up - I'll make sure to include it in our paper
>     as soon the mentioned algorithms are in a OpenSSH release. I've read the
>     mails regarding those ciphers on the openssh-dev ML and am excited that
>     OpenSSH includes them.
> 
> 
> as I had problems with all the '@' ciphers, and Aaron thankfully helped
> me, I am wondering 
> if it should be noted in the paragraph 2.2.1, that some of the ciphers
> are not available yet.
> 
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