Cipher 'none'

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Fri Dec 8 11:52:10 EST 2000


The result of the argument was it would never go into the OpenBSD's
tree.  However it was suggested a qualify patch could be accepted and put
into contrib/ section.

- Ben

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Edward Avis wrote:

> yOn Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> 
> >As I understood it, patches would be considered, but noone has submitted
> >one...
> 
> I had hoped to submit a simple one-line patch to reenable the cipher
> 'none', but it seems that people wouldn't accept that without extra
> safeguards to stop users shooting themselves in the foot.  When I
> realized that something more complex would be needed, I was scared off.
> I might spend some time looking at the ssh source in greater depth and
> working out how to enable 'none' only if RSA/DSA authentication is being
> used (for example), but I haven't bothered to so far.
> 
> 






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