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Re: [Curdle] draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-kex-sha2 and diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 (1024-bit DH)

Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> Fri, 21 July 2017 00:54 UTC

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From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: [Curdle] draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-kex-sha2 and diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 (1024-bit DH)
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> writes:
> 
> >When I wrote legacy.html I tried to SEO it so it was the first search result
> >for the error message in question (it seems to have worked -- for now).
> 
> That assumes OpenSSH is the client.  When I run into it it's always the
> server, so there's no error message or other information available.

Isn't it the client's job to generate a useful error then?

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