Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes ("Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client"): > That lists 53141 live hosts (0.52%) under the category "using Debian > weak keys" (the percentage for TLS was 0.03%, close to your > recollection). From the context of the rest of the

Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > I'm considering removing ssh-vulnkey in an upload of the Debian openssh > package sometime soon, and would like feedback. In my role as sysadmin for various places, I've used various wrappers around your ssh-vulnkey code to check for weak keys and

Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
Colin Watson wrote: >On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:45:27PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> In the course of some research I was doing recently I recall running >across a >> survey that someone had done about SSH keys in use on the internet. >My vague >> recollection (it was completely tangentia

Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:45:27PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In the course of some research I was doing recently I recall running across a > survey that someone had done about SSH keys in use on the internet. My vague > recollection (it was completely tangential to what I was looking for)

Re: Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, September 14, 2013 22:49:13 Colin Watson wrote: > I'm considering removing ssh-vulnkey in an upload of the Debian openssh > package sometime soon, and would like feedback. > > > What is ssh-vulnkey? > > > I wrote ssh-vulnkey as part of the set of countermeasures

Considering dropping ssh-vulnkey from openssh-client

2013-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
I'm considering removing ssh-vulnkey in an upload of the Debian openssh package sometime soon, and would like feedback. What is ssh-vulnkey? I wrote ssh-vulnkey as part of the set of countermeasures implemented in Debian and Ubuntu to mitigate http://www.debian.org/security/