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Re: SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from Debian?

From c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from Debian?
Date 2025-05-13 13:20 +0200
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Hello Chris,
Thank you for your reply.

Am 13.05.2025 12:39 schrieb Chris Boot:
> I don't think that your software _should_ offer cipher
> selection options
> [..]
> If your users know enough about ciphers to make their own judgements
> about them and make their own selections, they should also know about
> editing the SSH client configuration to effect those changes.

Simple and radical. I love it!
I can reduce complexity of GUI, docu and also throw away some code. 
Yeah! ;)
This solves a lot of "problems".

I'll simply add a field to past additional options to the SSH command. 
The software still has something like this for "rsync".

Regards,
Christian

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SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from  Debian? c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-05-13 11:40 +0200
  Re: SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from Debian? Bartosz Fenski <bartosz@fenski.pl> - 2025-05-13 12:50 +0200
  Re: SHH Cipher recommendations and "prohibitions" from  Debian? c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2025-05-13 13:20 +0200
  Use ~/.ssh/config Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de> - 2025-05-13 14:20 +0200

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