[Bug 2971] New: Prevent OpenSSH from advertising its version number

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:59:19AM +0000, Jochen Bern wrote:
> FWIW, and without dismissing the possibility of fingerprinting a server
> in other ways, the fact that clients that *can* pass authentication have
> a need to know the server's version number (and vice versa) does not
> necessarily imply that that information needs to be passed in the
> *public* part of the protocol ...

You missed the parts about "working around implementation kinks that
the clients can know by looking at the version string".

Like, "if we send <this> key exchange now, the connection will be lost".

gert

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 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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