[Info-vax] SSH problem after upgrade on remote system

[Martin Vorländer]

Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> schrieb:
> helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wrote:
>> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>>> Is it possible to enable something on the remote node?
>>>
>>> Yes, you can weaken the security on the remote box by re-enabling the
>>> ciphers which were disabled in the upgrade.
>>>
>>> This was covered in comp.os.vms a few days ago.
>>
>> Thanks; I had skipped that thread since I didn't think it relevant.
>>
>> Presumably the better solution would be to have better ciphers on VMS.
>> Is that a possibility?
>>
> In principle yes, but that would mean that HP has to patch SSH (for 
> Alpha I assume). Doesn't seem very likely.

TCP/IP Services V5.7 ECO5 contains CTR mode ciphers, which should be
acceptible for updated Linux SSH servers.

cu,
  Martin