Re: SSH key algorithm updates

[Max Horn <postbox%quendi.de@localhost>]

Hi there,

just joined the list, but saw on the list archive that a few days ago,
Mark D. Baushke wrote on this thread:

> It would be useful to see what other protocols various SSH implementers
> have been adding and see if there is a desire to move any of them into a
> recommended or optional standard.

As a matter of fact, I started such a page some time ago:

  http://ssh-comparison.quendi.de/
  http://ssh-comparison.quendi.de/comparison.html

I tried my best to make it accurate, but of course cannot exclude mistakes.
Also, of course there are implementations missing (one notable is Bitvise's;
I started work on that, but had a hard time finding reliable a source for
what they actually support and what not).

Anyway, issue reports and pull request (also with info on additional
implementations) are most welcome:

  https://github.com/fingolfin/ssh-comparison

The comparison page shows for example that hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha2-512
support is quite good now; one notable SSH library not implementing it yet
in a released version is libssh2, but they will have it in the next release
(the code is in their repository already), which in turn should allow
various clients based on it to support it. Another exception is lsh.


Cheers,
max