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Use ~/.ssh/config

From Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Use ~/.ssh/config
Date 2025-05-13 14:20 +0200
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On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 11:39 +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
> I don't think that your software _should_ offer cipher selection
> options to override SSH defaults at all, instead just using the
> default options.

I second this. This way, the secure defaults will evolve over time with
future releases of OpenSSH and Debian.

If necessary, I recommend to define non-default settings on a per-host
basis in:

  ~/.ssh/config

This is out of scope for rsync and Back in Time.

Regards
Stephan

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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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