Re: applying AES-GCM to secure shell: proposed "tweak"

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>]

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost> writes:

>[So far the only extensibility mechanisms that we have at that point in the
>protocol are: new protocol version number (not going to happen) and magic
>algorithm names (which have been used successfully).]

... and the completely unused 32-bit flags field in the first message, which I
mentioned previously :-).

Peter.