RE: DH group exchange (Re: SSH key algorithm updates)

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
Message-ID <9A043F3CF02CD34C8E74AC1594475C73F4BA61E8@uxcn10-5.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
[email protected] <[email protected]> writes:

>Well, what do other folks on the list think? Is it time to add SHA3 to the
>SSH standard for DH Group15 and DH Group16?

Nope.  We know, from the outcome of the SHA-3 competition, that SHA-2 is
actually a lot stronger than people thought.  So adding SHA-3 would be adding
yet another extra algorithm that's not noticeably stronger than SHA-2 (just
different), but a whole lot slower.  If there's some desperate demand for a
new hash algorithm, I'd rather have Blake2, which is at least an improvement
on SHA-2.

Peter.
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