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From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: OpenSSH 2.3.0 pre-upgrade
To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:56:25 -0500
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Hi,

Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
>You happen to know who came up with the non-standard
>extension to the SSH2 protocol that allows these primes
>to be used?? 
The key exchange is documented in

   Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol
               draft-provos-secsh-dh-group-exchange-00.txt

All rationale is contained within.

Regards,
 Niels Provos.


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