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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:23:19 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh None cipher
Message-ID:  <54458B57.60106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141020183340.GC94319@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <CAOc73CCvQqwg65tt9vs54CoU1HGvV7ZxLWeQwXiSOm8UjtV50w@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1410172242240.27826@multics.mit.edu> <5441E834.2000906@freebsd.org> <20141020183340.GC94319@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On 2014-10-20 14:33, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:10:28AM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2014-10-17 22:43, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ben Woods wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whilst trying to replicate data from my FreeNAS to my FreeBSD home t=
heater
>>>> PC on my local LAN, I came across this bug preventing use of the Non=
e
>>>> cipher:
>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D163127
>>>>
>>>> I think I could enable the None cipher by recompiling base with a fl=
ag in
>>>> /etc/src.conf.
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>>
>>>> Is there any harm in enabling this by default, but having the None c=
ipher
>>>> remain disabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? That way people wouldn't ha=
ve it
>>>> on my default, but wouldn't have to recompile to enable it.
>>>
>>> I do not see any immediate and concrete harm that doing so would caus=
e,
>>> yet that is insufficient for me to think that doing so would be a goo=
d
>>> idea.
>>
>> I've been using openssh-portable from ports with the none cipher patch=

>> to get around this.
>>
>> IIRC, upstream openssh refuses to merge the none cipher patches "becau=
se
>> you shouldn't do that". But I'd vote for having it compiled in and jus=
t
>> disabled by default.
>>
>> It will refuse to let you have a shell without encryption, and prints =
a
>> big fat hairy warning when encryption is disabled.
>=20
> When Bjoern and I did the merge of the HPN patches we left None disable=

> by default out of a desire to be conservative with a change we knew som=
e
> people didn't like.  I think turning it on by default would be fine giv=
en
> the seatbelts in place to prevent accidental inappropriate use.
>=20
> -- Brooks
>=20

+1 to this.

--=20
Allan Jude


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