ssh client auto rekey feature.

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Feb 20 19:09:16 EST 2004


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, John A Grahor wrote:

> Since the ssh spec says one should rekey every hour, I plan to patch the ssh
> client to implement an auto-rekey option.

We already auto-rekey, though I think it is based on data volume rather 
than time. I'll make a patch to enable time-based rekeying.

You can set ReKeyLimit in ssh_config to control this. (This needs an entry 
in ssh_config).

-d




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