Recent patches for big-endian systems in OpenSSH

In view of recent discussions on Debian lists for big-endian systems
about the problem of undesirable little-endian assumptions in some
software packages, this snippet from a posting to the
[email protected] may be of interest:

>> ...
>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 5:48 AM Damien Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This is mostly a note for downstream distributors of OpenSSH. I've
>> > just pushed fixes to the V_9_9 stable branch for a bug in the
>> > mlkem768x25519-sha256 key exchange algorithm that was added in this
>> > release that causes connection failures when connecting between
>> > big-endian and little-endian hosts.
>> >
>> > The problem is on the big-endian side. No change is required for
>> > the more common little-endian architectures (e.g. x86, ARM).
>> >
>> > If you distribute OpenSSH to big-endian systems and have packaged
>> > OpenSSH 9.9 already, then I recommend you include these fixes as the
>> > next release of OpenSSH will make this key exchange algorithm the
>> > default.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Damien
>> ...

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