SSH key exchange algorithm negotiation payload growth

[Peter Stuge]

Kent R. Spillner wrote:
> I'm curious, though, how other embedded SSH implementors maintain
> forwards compatibility

More clever parsing of incoming packets, I guess?


> Are there other configuration paramters for the other name-lists
> during algorithm negotiation, e.g.
> encryption_algorithms_client_to_server,
> compression_algorithms_server_to_client, etc?

See Ciphers and Compression in man ssh_config and man sshd_config.


//Peter