Re: ssh

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Lars Segerlund wrote:
> 
>  Hmm im getting 
> 
> Selected cipher type idea not supported by server.
> 
>  with the default package which i didn't get before ??
> 
>  any ideas, i have the feeling that im doing something wrong.


 The IDEA algorithm is patented or something.  openssh, which is what the
ssh  package contains, doesn't implement IDEA.  It does implement triple
DES, which should be as good, so you can use that and everything will work
fine.

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