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Date:      Fri, 05 Jul 2002 20:48:15 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Default ssh protocol in -STABLE [was: HEADS UP: FreeBSD-STABLE now has OpenSSH 3.4p1]
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020705204451.02607930@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020705134934.A40046@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <xzphejepfd7.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020705073634.GA64656@sunbay.com> <20020705073634.GA64656@sunbay.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020705073043.01c52198@192.168.0.12> <xzphejepfd7.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no>

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At 05:49 AM 7/5/2002, Thomas Quinot wrote:

>Since the version change is going to suprise people anyway, I'd say let
>us do it all the way and switch to protocol 2,1. It is more than time
>to phase out protocol 1.

Alas, too many clients use Protocol 1 only. And Protocol 1 really isn't
that bad, security-wise! In fact, after the rash of recent bugs in
code that's exclusively used by Protocol 2 (with, I suspect, more
yet to be found), I've set quite a few servers that really only 
communicate with Protocol 1 clients to do Protocol 1 only.

I may reconsider this move in a year or so, but for now it seems
to be the safest way to go.

--Brett Glass


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