From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 22:51:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prioris.im.pw.edu.pl (prioris.im.pw.edu.pl [148.81.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0631B14D18 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zaks@im.pw.edu.pl) Received: from pd103.warszawa.ppp.tpnet.pl ([212.160.55.103]:516 "EHLO localhost") by prioris.im.pw.edu.pl with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:50:15 +0200 Received: from zaks by localhost with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11C9cn-0005iU-00; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:35:05 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh/ssh2 References: From: Slawek Zak Date: 05 Aug 1999 00:35:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger"'s message of "Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:36:36 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <87hfmftbs6.fsf@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl> Lines: 32 Organization: Kamikaze leming squadron User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.1 (Arches) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ** "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote: Eric> On 4 Aug 1999, Slawek Zak wrote: >> ** "Eric J. Schwertfeger" wrote: >> Eric> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: >> >> You can search the archives for this list and bugtraq to get >> >> a better idea. Put another way, ssh version 1 is well tested >> >> and free, whereas version 2 is less well tested, new, costs >> >> money to use, and has no features that version 1 doesn't >> >> have. So, why use version 2? >> Eric> Version 1 uses the RSA encryption algorithm, which isn't Eric> free for commercial use within the US. >> >> prioris% ssh -v SSH Version 1.2.26 [.......] Standard version. >> Does not use RSAREF. >> From the SSH FAQ, section 2.5.1 SSH version 1.2.X Eric> "...Encryption keys are exchanged using RSA[....]" Eric> Please note that no alternatives are used for Key exchange Eric> or host authentication. The v1 protocol doesn't allow for Eric> other key echange encryption algorithms. You are right, I overlooked this. Sorry for disinformation, and thanks for pointing this out. -- * Suavek Zak (Systems Administrator) * email: zaks@im.pw.edu.pl voice: +48 (0) 22 674 66 79 * PGP v2.6: 2048/9A7CBF71, finger://zaks@prioris.im.pw.edu.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message