[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-04 12:38:52 +0000, David Jones said:

> On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 6:24:25 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> I use Google Chrome for some things. When I attempt to visit a web site 
>> that doesn't have security that makes Chrome happy, it won't let me 
>> access the site. Now, what if there is some information there that I 
>> really need?
> 
> It gets harder all the time. Here's the alias I had to my .tcshrc file 
> on MacOS 10.15 so I could sftp files from my home VMSCluster:
> 
> alias vmsftp 'sftp -oKexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 
> -oHostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-dss -caes128-cbc'

Ayup.

OpenVMS and iLO can require connection downgrades on the other end of 
the connection.

And SSH and TLS support are both requiring app upgrades, as issues are 
identified.

Targetted attacks and connection shenanigans are only getting easier 
and more prevalent, too.

We're on a treadmill of vulnerabilities and exploits and of patches and 
upgrades here.

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