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2016 May 03
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An update on SSH protocol 1
...sabled for about a year.
Downstream vendors, to their credit, have included this change in recent
OS releases by shipping OpenSSH packages that disable protocol 1 by
default and/or offering separate, non-default packages to enable it.
This seems to have proceeded far more smootly than even my most
optimisitic hopes, so this gives us greater confidence that we can
complete the removal of protocol 1 soon. We want to do this partly to
hasten the demise of this cryptographic trainwreck, but also because
doing so removes a lot of legacy code from OpenSSH that inflates our
attack surface. Having it gone will...