ssh command & valid cipher names

[Marko Asplund]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Marko Asplund wrote:

> i thought that it would be useful to make ssh command to print valid
> cipher names in case an unknown cipher has been specified by the user for
> example the command 'ssh -c list' would print:
> 
> Unknown cipher type 'list'
> valid cipher names: none, des, 3des, blowfish, 3des-cbc, blowfish-cbc,
> cast128-cbc, arcfour, aes128-cbc, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc, rijndael128-cbc,
> rijndael192-cbc, rijndael256-cbc, rijndael-cbc at lysator.liu.se

regarding the issue of cipher selection, shouldn't there be a mechanism
for sys admins to enforce site security policy by being able to choose the
ciphers which sshd allows clients to use? for example i'd like to disallow
clients connecting with ciphers none and des to our ssh servers.

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	aspa