Re: Last Call: SSH Protocol Architecture to Proposed Standard

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:54:38PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> So, as I understand it, the 30-49 and 60-79 subranges are specifically
> for use by whatever key exchange or auth method gets negotiated.

yes. the meaning depends on the negotiated method.

for example, both 
	diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
and
	diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
use message id 30 and 31.

> A
> protocol change which would add a new message number would almost
> certainly require a new key exchange or authentication exchange
> identifier string -- we might just want to codify that, and have the
> the registry describe the ranges as as "For use by the negotiated {key
> exchange, auth} method" and leave it as that.

yes, that makes sense.