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From: "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:29:02
Message-Id: 87wnmrz055.fsf@gengoff
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1: add news item by Mike Gilbert
1 I think it may be helpful to include the specific file(s) those
2 options
3 need to be added and to clarify whether they need to be added to
4 the
5 server host or the clients.
6
7 Perhaps like so:
8
9 hashes may be re-enabled on the server by adding the following
10 config
11 options to the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_confg:
12
13
14
15 WKR,
16 Aaron
17
18 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> writes:
19
20 > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
21 > ---
22 > .../2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt | 26
23 > +++++++++++++++++++
24 > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
25 > create mode 100644
26 > 2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt
27 >
28 > diff --git
29 > a/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt
30 > b/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt
31 > new file mode 100644
32 > index 0000000..cfdcc4a
33 > --- /dev/null
34 > +++
35 > b/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1/2021-10-08-openssh-rsa-sha1.en.txt
36 > @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
37 > +Title: OpenSSH RSA SHA-1 signatures
38 > +Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
39 > +Posted: 2021-10-08
40 > +Revision: 1
41 > +News-Item-Format: 2.0
42 > +Display-If-Installed: net-misc/openssh
43 > +
44 > +As of version 8.8, OpenSSH disables RSA signatures using the
45 > SHA-1
46 > +hash algorithm by default. This change affects both the client
47 > and
48 > +server components.
49 > +
50 > +After upgrading to this version, you may have trouble
51 > connecting to
52 > +older SSH servers that do not support the newer
53 > RSA/SHA-256/SHA-512
54 > +signatures. Support for these signatures was added in OpenSSH
55 > 7.2.
56 > +
57 > +As well, you may have trouble using older SSH clients to
58 > connect to a
59 > +server running OpenSSH 8.8 or higher. Some older clients do not
60 > +automatically utilize the newer hashes. For example, PuTTY
61 > before
62 > +version 0.75 is affected.
63 > +
64 > +To resolve these problems, please upgrade your SSH
65 > client/server
66 > +whereever possible. If this is not feasible, support for the
67 > SHA-1
68 > +hashes may be re-enabled using the following config options:
69 > +
70 > +HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
71 > +PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
72
73
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