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authormycroft <mycroft@NetBSD.org>2001-01-07 20:48:06 +0000
committermycroft <mycroft@NetBSD.org>2001-01-07 20:48:06 +0000
commitfeb89c799af3a30bbdcadca60060f0237bf1ffbb (patch)
treebc11d4a4efb147e54c82552a71b00b75240dfb07 /crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1
parent2aa1fb4020d08212ede1fa28729bd43cf6d76dbc (diff)
Add a COMPATIBILITY section, mentioning the lossage with IDEA-encrypted keys.
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1')
-rw-r--r--crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.122
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1 b/crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1
index 64d43dd2e0d..aaf4ba4174e 100644
--- a/crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1
+++ b/crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\"
-.\" $NetBSD: ssh.1,v 1.3 2000/11/20 06:42:05 mason Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ssh.1,v 1.4 2001/01/07 20:48:06 mycroft Exp $
.\"
.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd August 6, 2000
+.Dd January 7, 2001
.Dt SSH 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -608,12 +608,13 @@ The default is
.It Cm Cipher
Specifies the cipher to use for encrypting the session.
Currently,
-.Dq blowfish ,
+.Dq blowfish
and
.Dq 3des
are supported.
The default is
.Dq 3des .
+(Also see the COMPATIBILITY section below.)
.It Cm Ciphers
Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2
in order of preference.
@@ -1171,6 +1172,21 @@ Contains additional definitions for environment variables, see section
.Sx ENVIRONMENT
above.
.El
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+This implementation of SSH does not support the IDEA cipher. If you have
+.Dq Cm Cipher No idea
+in
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/config
+or
+.Pa /etc/ssh.conf ,
+you will need to change this (e.g. to
+.Dq Cm Cipher No 3des ) .
+Also, if you have private keys encrypted with IDEA, you will need to
+reencrypt them. This can be done with the non-free SSH package from ssh.fi
+or with F-Secure SSH, using the
+.Dq Fl u
+option to
+.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
.Sh AUTHOR
Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Markus Friedl, Theo de Raadt, Niels Provos,
Dug Song, Aaron Campbell