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This seems like a great idea. Unfortunately most of the recommendations seem to not be supported on my MacOS machine. Also, when I paired it down to the ones

This seems like a great idea. Unfortunately most of the recommendations seem to not be supported on my MacOS machine. Also, when I paired it down to the ones that are supported I wasn't able to connect to github. :( Very annoying.

newman314 12y ago
Agreed. And to add to it, even though Yosemite has OpenSSH 6.2p2, it has most of the newer features disabled. FWIW, this is what I have in my config file on Mac. Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr MACs hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1
- alwillis 12y ago
  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849392 for how to safely upgrade Yosemite’s OpenSSH to 6.6p1.
alwillis 12y ago
OS X 10.10 Yosemite ships with OpenSSH_6.2p2. Use Homebrew [1] to install 6.6p1 with its bug fixes and enhancements: brew install openssh --with-brewed-openssl --with-keychain-support [1]http://brew.sh http://brew.sh Reference: How to Update OpenSSH on Mac OS X at http://www.dctrwatson.com/2013/07/how-to-update-openssh-on-mac-os-x/ http://www.dctrwatson.com/2013/07/how-to-update-openssh-on-m...