Re: SSH tunnel key exchange methods

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Sven <svoop_6cedifwf9e@delirium.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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