Re: Fixing exchange of host keys in the SSH key exchange

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

denis bider (Bitvise) <ietf-ssh3%denisbider.com@localhost> writes:

>The obstacle seems to be getting people together. Those of us who’ve been
>around for 15 years may be on this mailing list. I’m not sure if this is true
>for authors of newer implementations, who might benefit from this information
>most.

We can't solve every possible problem with incompatibilities, but we can at
least get good coverage of a lot of them.  I think there are quite a few
oddball SSH implementations whose developers have never been on this list and
who we can't get to, but it can at least help those on the list.

Just thinking about this a bit more, we'd maybe need two things, a means of
discussing quirks of other implementations, and an (informal) registry of SSH
ID strings and who to contact if you find a problem with that ID, because
that's been another problem, "I've found a bug with X, who do I report it
to?".  Going through standard tech-support channels often doesn't work because
you're not a customer and there's no obvious way to get past the front-end
people to talk to a developer.

Peter.