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2001 Mar 07
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patch to select pkalg
...2, but I
only have the DSA key, and I want to use that. I'm stuck; the OpenSSH client
is hard-wired to offer both algorithms in the key exchange, and will select
ssh-rsa if it's available (see myproposal.h, KEX_DEFAULT_PK_ALG).
Below is a patch adding the client configuration option "PKAlgorithms" for
this purpose. It doesn't validate the supplied list; I'm not sure if that's
really necessary or desirable.
This situation raises a couple of questions. The first is about the protocol,
which forces the client to commit to a choice of host key algorithm before it
sees the ke...