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Re: TLS considering an rc4-die-die-die draft



On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Niels M?ller wrote:

> Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > OpenSSH will turn RC4 off soon - we're just trying to figure out how
> > to do it gently enough that working configurations don't suddenly break
> > yet firmly enough that people actually move to a better cipher.
> 
> What breakage do you expect? Servers configured to support no other
> cipher than arcfour, probably from some (possibly misguided) performance
> argument?

People who have "ssh -c arcfour" in their scripts or configurations used
non-interactively.

-d



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