Re: Algorithms: who's at fault here?

[Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf%mit.edu@localhost>]

>>>>> "Mouse" == Mouse  <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes:
    Mouse> Am I missing something?  It sure looks to me like either
    Mouse> OpenSSH or Ubuntu (whichever one decided to do this)
    Mouse> gratuitously breaking interop by desupporting a REQUIRED
    Mouse> algorithm.

I don't know about gratuitously; I'd argue that the key length of
ssh-dss is such that it ought to be disabled.
And if the IETF didn't get around to doing that, people will make
security policy decisions on their own.