SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from Debian?
[email protected] Tue, 13 May 2025 09:35:08 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.security |
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Hello, I am upstream maintainer of "Back In Time" [1][2]. It is GUI backup software using rsync, where rsync is able to connect via SSH to a remote host. Users are able to configure the Cipher used for that SSH connection. The project is old and I wasn't the developer implementing this feature. I know nearly nothing about Ciphers and stuff like this. I would like to give my users some hands-on about the available and used ciphers. I would like to warn if they use an out-dated one and I want to recommend some. But to do this I need a strong, official and trustful reference. Does Debian has something like his? I was able to find a list of recommendations from the BSI (a German institution) but without a list of out-dated Ciphers. Also the NIST has a document, but I am not able to understand it. I couldn't find a list in it. What do you think? Regards, Christian Buhtz [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime> [2] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime>