Re: SSH tunnel key exchange methods

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Sven <svoop_6cedifwf9e(at)delirium(dot)ch>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: SSH tunnel key exchange methods
Date: 2015-11-27 09:31:43
Message-ID: CA+OCxozWb1AMK_mOOZo_QF1w5i=4bx=MoO=Q2UavPihZ54aWJA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Sven <svoop_6cedifwf9e(at)delirium(dot)ch> wrote:
>> The key exchange methods offered when opening an SSH tunnel are all
>> SHA1 and therefore too weak:
>>
>> [sshd] fatal: Unable to negotiate with xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: no matching
>> key exchange method found. Their offer:
>> diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,
>> diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 [preauth]
>
> Any news on this? If there's no easy way to add safer kexes, I suggest
> you disable the SSH feature altogether. SHA1 is dead and IMO nobody
> should trust a connection established with SHA1 kexes in order to talk
> to databases.

Akshay, you know that code best of all. How do we enable safer kexes?

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