patch adding none cipher/mac for ssh v2

Jefferson Ogata Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov
Fri Nov 12 07:18:44 EST 2004


J Raynor wrote:
> As a final note, I'd like to point out that kerberos allows the user to 
> choose whether their session is encrypted or not.  So aside from the few 
> people who may have argued the point on the openssh mailing lists, there 
> are groups of people out there who want this choice.

SSL2 and SSL3 also support a null cipher.

Does anyone else see the irony of what's going on here?

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Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov>
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