Can we disable diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 by default?

[Yegor Ievlev]

I don't think there is any point to generate so many moduli. Actually,
3 moduli of sizes 2048, 3072 and 4096 seem like a sane choice.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:58 AM Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 14:22, Yegor Ievlev <koops1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough in crypto to fully understand your
> > answer, but I will try. I wonder why moduli are not automatically
> > generated the first time sshd is started though. That would make much
> > more sense than shipping a default moduli file but also asking
> > everyone to replace it with their own.
>
> That was the original intent (and it's mentioned in RFC4419) however
> each moduli file we ship (70-80 instances of 6 sizes)  takes about 1
> cpu-month to generate on a lowish-power x86-64 machine.  Most of it is
> parallelizable, but even then it'd likely take a few hours to generate
> one of each size.  I imagine that'd cause some complaints about
> startup time.
>
> With those caveats, you are also welcome to add the appropriate
> ssh-keygen commands to your startup scripts.
>
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