DH Group Exchange Fallback

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Joseph S Testa II wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    I'm interested in requiring a minimum of 3072-bit DH moduli when using the
> "diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256" kex, so I edited my /etc/ssh/moduli
> file such that only 3071+ moduli are left.  However, when clients ask for a
> max of 2048-bit moduli, they actually get one (!).  I poked around and found
> that a fallback mechanism exists (dh.c:185), which returns back the fixed
> group14 Group in that case (dh.c:441).

What behaviour would you like for this case? We can't send a group that is
larger than 2048, because the client has said that is the maxiumum that
will accept. Would you prefer the server disconnect at that point?

-d