Re: Straw Poll on group name

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil%recoil.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:19:27PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 
> straw poll:
> 	[A] we should use small integers to refer to common groups
> 		[sample] diffie-hellman-group2-sha1
> 
> 	[B] we should refer to groups by size:
> 		[sample] diffie-hellman-group2048-sha1
> 
> 	[C] we should refer to groups by the ike number
> 		[sample] diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
> 

I fail to see how anything other than [C] would be useful, given that:

$ pwd
/usr/src/usr.bin/ssh
$ grep -r diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 * 
kex.h:#define   KEX_DH14        "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1"

Any implementation would have to support it anyway for good interop
with OpenSSH.

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