Re: Core draft last call update.

[sjl%ssh.com@localhost (Sami J. Lehtinen)]

markus%openbsd.org@localhost (Markus Friedl) writes:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:00:54PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote:
> > I was not aware that existing implementations already support CFB/OFB. 
> > Apparently this is the case for OpenSSH, but it's not documented anywhere.
> > OpenSSH also seems to support ECB mode, which does not make any sense to
> > me. BTW, OpenSSH appears to use unregistered reserved names for these
> > ciphers, which violates section 5 of the architecture spec. 
> 
> What versions of OpenSSH are you talking about?
> 
> About released versions?  Or about software that never left my laptop?
> 
> Well, who cares, I'm getting used to OpenSSH-FUD...

I think he is referring to our ssh, which has those modes for some
ciphers (they come with the crypto lib, specified as in IPSEC etc).
Sorry about that.

Anyway, I believe the core documents don't need this, as a draft for
additional modes is simple enough to do (as you demonstrated).

Cheers,
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