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>"You might ask yourself how OpenSSH ended up with this. The sad answer is the OpenSSL command line tool had it as a default, and now we’re stuck with it." Cou
by bogomipz 8y ago
>"You might ask yourself how OpenSSH ended up with this. The sad answer is the OpenSSL command line tool had it as a default, and now we’re stuck with it."
Could someone elaborate on this? Is this saying that the ssh-keygen utility shells out to the openssl-command line tool which at one point defaulted to md5 for encryption? If this is the case why would be stuck with it?
- lvh 8y agoBackwards compatibility. I don’t think it shelled out, but close enough.