Re: Can an SSH_MSG_EXT_INFO have zero entries?

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Apr 2023 15:26:26 +0000

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Niels Möller <[email protected]> writes:

>For what it's worth, empty lists are valid (and common) in some other places,
>e.g., the languages lists in SSH_MSG_KEXINIT.

Right, but that's just some pointless baggage tacked onto a message whose
actual job it is to communicate crypto parameters.  In the case of the
extensions, the entire message contains nothing.

Peter.