Re: Comments on DH-GEX draft

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

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:11:45PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> There are two main problem areas, the first is the new-format message (I'll
> call it new-gex here) using { min, preferred, max } rather than the original
> { preferred } format (I'll call it gex).  This looks like it's been bolted on

this has been changed to make sure the server
does not return a group that is too large for
the client.  some implementations had
problems before this change.

> recently without updating the rest of the text, which still describes the
> behaviour for gex.  In fact I couldn't actually find a server that would
> accept the new-gex format, only the old gex one (they just rejected requests
> with the new-gex message).

funny, only very very old openssh implementations
lack support for 'new-gex'