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Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> writes:=0A=
=0A=
>which of the bazillion options we think might actually be implemented and =
get=0A=
>deployed.=0A=
=0A=
It's SSH, all of them of course.=0A=
=0A=
(Take a look at the SSH_MSG_KEXINIT from widely-used clients some time, her=
e's=0A=
 an extract from one of them).=0A=
=0A=
 sntrup761x25519-sha512,sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com,mlkem768x25519-=
=0A=
 sha256,mlkem1024nistp384-sha384,mlkem768nistp256-sha256,curve448-=0A=
 sha512,curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-=0A=
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 exchange-sha256,diffie- hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group18=
-=0A=
 sha512,diffie-hellman- group17-sha512,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie=
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 hellman-group15- sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group=
14-=0A=
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x-=0A=
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=0A=
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=0A=
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=0A=
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=0A=
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6-=0A=
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ac-=0A=
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Peter.=

