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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:07 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH 2.3.0 pre-upgrade
Message-ID:  <20001124153307.A71713@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200011242328.eAONSJ560421@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:28:19PM -0500
References:  <200011242328.eAONSJ560421@green.dyndns.org>

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:28:19PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> What's new in this release?  Mostly the adding of the AES (Rijndael) to t=
he=20
> SSH2 algorithms.  Is anything now broken?  Well, nothing new broken that =
I=20

Doesn't that rely on AES support in OpenSSL?

> There's some weird issue where for the Diffie-Hellman exchange, OpenSSH=
=20
> wants primes but doesn't seem to want to generate them... it expects an
> /etc/ssh/primes (which should become /var/run/ssh_primes, if anything) an=
d I=20
> have no clue where the program is that supposedly generates them.  So, fo=
r=20
> SSH2, the authentication stage generates a large warning and uses a=20
> hardcoded prime.  This should not actually have an affect on security,=20
> though, according to my understanding of the Diffie-Hellman protocol.

They're static - OpenBSD just committed the file with some good primes
generated from OpenSSL, presumably.

Kris
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