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

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> 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 :-).

I think it would be much safer to define new cipher names for this.

-d