Re: SSH tunnel key exchange methods

Hi Dave

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Today I'll look into it on priority and update accordingly.

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