svn commit: r303716 - head/crypto/openssh

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Aug 8 10:35:58 UTC 2016


Andrey Chernov <ache at freebsd.org> writes:
> You should address your complains to original openssh author instead, it
> was his decision to get rid of weak algos. In my personal opinion, if
> your hardware is outdated, just drop it out. We can't turn our security
> team into compatibility team, by constantly restoring removed code, such
> code quickly becomes outdated and may add new security holes even being
> inactive.

This.  It's bad enough that we will never be able to upgrade OpenSSH
past 7.3 in 10 because some of the deprecated code that we re-enabled is
scheduled to be removed entirely.

DES
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