ssh compat information

[David Leadbeater]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 03:16, Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 07:55, Chris Rapier <rapier at psc.edu> wrote:
> >[...]I had been using
> > Blake2b512 for the hashing algorithm but I want to put in a path to use
> > xxhash instead. Maintaining backward compatibility means I need to know
> > something about the remote.

Could you use the already (draft) specified sftp check-file
extension[1] for this?

It takes a comma separated list of algorithms and the server picks the
first it supports.

David

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-extensions-00#section-3