Protocol Version Exchange: the comments field and an idea how to use it

[Darren Tucker]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg at fifthhorseman.net>wrote:
>
> i don't think the spec insists on an ordering.  in fact, i think both
> are supposed to send their strings immediately, if i'm reading it
> correctly.


Protocol 1 requires that the client wait for the server's banner.  Protocol
2 doesn't, but up until relatively recently OpenSSH waited for the banner
even if it it was configured to support Protocol 2 only.

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