Re: SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from Debian?

[email protected] Tue, 13 May 2025 11:11:26 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your reply.

Am 13.05.2025 12:39 schrieb Chris Boot:
> I don't think that your software _should_ offer cipher
> selection options
> [..]
> If your users know enough about ciphers to make their own judgements
> about them and make their own selections, they should also know about
> editing the SSH client configuration to effect those changes.

Simple and radical. I love it!
I can reduce complexity of GUI, docu and also throw away some code. 
Yeah! ;)
This solves a lot of "problems".

I'll simply add a field to past additional options to the SSH command. 
The software still has something like this for "rsync".

Regards,
Christian