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

[Michael Stone]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 09:56:02PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
>I'm surprised by how many otherwise sensible and clueful people think 
>that security through obscurity is a good idea.  Hiding the version 
>number will not prevent adversaries from discovering the version 
>number.

IME, it's more common for exploits to just throw stuff against a wall 
and not care much about the version at all. Basically, hiding the 
version number mostly causes problems only for legitimate uses.