Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:25:46 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r303716 - head/crypto/openssh Message-ID: <867fbrwo9h.fsf@desk.des.no> In-Reply-To: <30e655d1-1df7-5e2a-fccb-269e3cea4684@freebsd.org> (Andrey Chernov's message of "Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:25:54 %2B0300") References: <201608031608.u73G8Mjq055909@repo.freebsd.org> <d419bddd-fe56-bc11-8965-142ca0b94ebc@fastmail.net> <9a01870a-d99d-13a2-54bd-01d32616263c@fastmail.net> <CAPQ4fftQ30_aqU8V_ea-WEKBdMZs5H9Rwxnfa0crid_df049nQ@mail.gmail.com> <b99c06ac-82d6-ccda-419c-2ece5be4636f@fastmail.net> <30e655d1-1df7-5e2a-fccb-269e3cea4684@freebsd.org>
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Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> writes: > You should address your complains to original openssh author instead, it > was his decision to get rid of weak algos. In my personal opinion, if > your hardware is outdated, just drop it out. We can't turn our security > team into compatibility team, by constantly restoring removed code, such > code quickly becomes outdated and may add new security holes even being > inactive. This. It's bad enough that we will never be able to upgrade OpenSSH past 7.3 in 10 because some of the deprecated code that we re-enabled is scheduled to be removed entirely. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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