On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 14:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 07:12:32AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 14:27 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com > > > > What's your thoughts on extending that a bit by adding aes256-ctr > > to > > that list? > > Don't use it, unless compatibility with certain Windows SSH clients > is > required. [1] is a good read on this Cipher. > What I can consider is ADEAD variety of AES, but - I'm uncertain > whenever it made its way to OpenSSH at all. It's not in Stretch's > version of openssh, that's for sure. > Hmmm. I was reading [1] earlier and felt that "Don't use it" applied to CBC but not CTR. I use ConnectBot (Android SSH client app) and it has a limited set of ciphers. Thanks, -Jim P.
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