[Cialug] Major crypto improvements in SSH

Nicolai nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
Thu Nov 21 12:33:35 CST 2013


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:48:37AM -0600, Nicolai wrote:
> OpenSSH is also now working to implement ChaCha20Poly1305.

This has been committed.  WOW!

The most important recent change though is that of making Curve25519 the
default curve in key exchange.  It is vastly superior to the previous
default of NIST P-256.

We're starting to see the "first crop" after the sun started shining
this summer on what was really going on.

Nicolai


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