Different ciphers, MAC, compression for inbound and outbound .

[Behnam Behzadi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm at mindrot.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:27 PM
> To: Behnam Behzadi
> Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org; secureshell at securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Different ciphers, MAC, compression for inbound and
> outbound .
> 
> 
> 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

Hi Damien,

This question is not coming from actual users.  This was raised from the Marketing to Engineering to research the possibilities if some future customer makes it a requirement.

Thanks for your response.

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