RE: DH KEX names an "aberration"?

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%sun.com@localhost>]

here's a revision which documents the past rather than constraining the future:

   Additional methods may be defined as specified in [SSH-NUMBERS]. The
   name "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" is used for a key exchange method
   using an Oakley group as defined in [RFC2412].  SSH maintains its own
   group identifier space which is logically distinct from Oakley and IKE;
   however, for one additional group, the Working Group adopted the number
   assigned by [RFC3526], using diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 for the name of 
   the second defined group.  Implementations should treat these names as 
   opaque identifiers and should not assume any relationship between the groups
   used by SSH and the groups defined in 2412 and its successors.

						- Bill