diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 group size concerns and request

Dmitry Belyavskiy dbelyavs at redhat.com
Mon Sep 23 18:56:38 AEST 2024


Hello,

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:15 AM Kurt Fitzner via openssh-unix-dev
<openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org> wrote:

>
> I would like to advocate for:
>
> - Change behaviour of the server to allow server operators to set the
> minimum modulus group size allowable for a connection using
> diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
> Whether this is by having the server refuse to allow smaller moduli to
> be used than exist in ModuliFile, or another explicit configuration
> setting is added, it doesn't matter

I strongly support this requirement. We have a similar one for RSA and
having an explicit setting for DH would be great.

-- 
Dmitry Belyavskiy



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