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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:49:58 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        William Wong <willwong@samurai.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Default sshd_config settings
Message-ID:  <20010211124958.A79375@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20010211124834.T3274@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:48:34PM -0800
References:  <000701c0945c$eb3eaff0$0300a8c0@magus> <20010211121803.A78601@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010211124834.T3274@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:48:34PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [010211 12:20] wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:00:36PM -0500, William Wong wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >=20
> > > I wondering why only protocol 1 is enabled by default in sshd?  Is th=
ere a
> > > risk with using protocol 2 (or both?)
> >=20
> > It's not - you must have an out of date file, or are using an old
> > version of -stable (very old versions of OpenSSH didn't support
> > protocol 2).
> >=20
> > The risk is actually with protocol 1 -- it has protocol flaws which
> > have been known for quite a while, independent of the recently
> > discovered attacks. You should disable it unless you need it.
>=20
> I've heard that there's still no agent or authentication forwarding
> for ssh2 and dsa keys, have you heard about an ETA of these features?

You've heard, or you've researched and found to still be true? :)

Kris

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