OpenSSH private key encryption: time for AES?

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Jan 21 15:39:40 EST 2009


Damien Miller wrote:
[...]
> If we change then it should be to the best encryption that is supported by
> widely deployed SSL/OpenSSH versions.

Don't forget some versions of the Solaris 10 OpenSSL package cripple all 
ciphers with a key length >128 bits.  We work around that for the SSH 
ciphers but that's not going to help for the OpenSSL PEM functions.

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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