Ben Harris: 3des-ctr & blowfish-ctr

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

I tried to send mail off-list to Ben Harris, but it timed out in the
queue - perhaps they don't like me:

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Ben Harris <bjh21%bjh21.me.uk@localhost>... Deferred: Connection timed out with mx-relay.chiark.greenend.org.uk.
> Message could not be delivered for 5 days
> Message will be deleted from queue

Perhaps it's just as well, because a response to me likely wouldn't
have gotten through - most of Ben's list posts come from .org.uk, which
would be blocked, even though the one I replied to came from .ac.uk,
which wouldn't.

Anyway, others may be interested too. :-)

What I wanted to say was....

> I've implemented 3des-ctr and blowfish-ctr in PuTTY, but I've had to
> leave them disabled because I haven't found another implementation to
> test against.  Does anyone in the WG know of one?

I just added them to mine - it proved to be even easier than I had
expected, a matter of five or ten minutes at most.

Care to do some testing?  I've got a server running on
truly-delicious.rodents.montreal.qc.ca port 22222 that you're welcome
to test against.  It's running with -neverauth, so you won't be able to
authenticate there even if you had a copy of my private key, but that's
not necessary for crypto interop tests.  (It is set to offer only
3des-ctr and blowfish-ctr for encryption, with all other encryption
algorithms disabled.)

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