Bug#1073065: ssh_config manpage disagrees with ssh -Q kex on KexAlgorithms

Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.ssh
Message-ID <ZmqdzuGir7MZOWcd__19847.1903264121$1718263472$gmane$org@riva.ucam.org>
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3701

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:00:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I think this is mainly an error of emphasis.  The list that's explicitly
> spelled out in the manual page is the list of algorithms used by
> *default*, but the list shown by "ssh -Q kex" is the list that's
> *available*.  Some old algorithms are still implemented for legacy
> compatibility reasons but aren't sent to servers by default.
> 
> It would probably be less confusing if the word "also" were removed from
> the last sentence, but also "available" is used in two slightly
> different senses in this documentation, which doesn't help.  While the
> similar passage in sshd_config(5) still isn't ideal, it has a slightly
> clearer distinction between "supported" and "default" which is an
> improvement.

I suggested a patch upstream as
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3701.
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