Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3701
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:00:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I think this is mainly an error of emphasis. The list that's explicitly > spelled out in the manual page is the list of algorithms used by > *default*, but the list shown by "ssh -Q kex" is the list that's > *available*. Some old algorithms are still implemented for legacy > compatibility reasons but aren't sent to servers by default. > > It would probably be less confusing if the word "also" were removed from > the last sentence, but also "available" is used in two slightly > different senses in this documentation, which doesn't help. While the > similar passage in sshd_config(5) still isn't ideal, it has a slightly > clearer distinction between "supported" and "default" which is an > improvement. I suggested a patch upstream as https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3701. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
