Different ciphers, MAC, compression for inbound and outbound .

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 10:45, Behnam Behzadi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to IETF draft draft-ietf-secsh-transport-14.txt, different
> ciphers(encryption), MAC and compression can be used for one direction say
> server-to-client and a completely different cipher, MAC and compression for
> the other direction client-to-server of the same connection.
> 
> Is this supported today in OpenSSH, and if not, are there plans to support
> it in any future releases of the code?  If so, in which release is it
> planned?

This is supported at the protocol level, but there is no way to
configure sshd to force different client->server and server->client
ciphers.

Why do you want to do this?

-d