Legacy option for key length?

[Peter Moody]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 9:47 PM, David Newall <openssh at davidnewall.com> wrote:

> Of course it's the client's fault.  The client worked, was changed, and thus
> stopped working.

don't upgrade your client. problem solved. you're at fault for not
pinning your dependencies when you have hard dependencies.

>> maintaining old code isn't free. if you need the old options, ssh1
>> support, whatever, you should bear the cost of that yourself (by
>> keeping an old copy around, or compiling it yourself when you need
>> it). that cost shouldn't be borne by the openssh developers and not
>> the ret of the community.
>
> The developers fucked up.

that thing, where your communication style gets in the way of any
valuable point you might otherwise be making, you're doing it again.