Fwd: [Bug 1242] GSSAPI Keyexchange support

[Simon Wilkinson]

Just because I know readers of this list have been following the GSSAPI Key Exchange saga over the last 9 years, I thought the following mail from OpenSSH's bug tracking system might be of interest.

I still believe that their argument is bogus, and I will continue to maintain the OpenSSH key exchange patch. As far as I'm aware, RedHat are now the only major vendor who ship OpenSSH without it.

Cheers,

Simon.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.mindrot.org
> Date: 9 February 2010 22:49:24 GMT
> To: simon at sxw.org.uk
> Subject: [Bug 1242] GSSAPI Keyexchange support
> 
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242
> 
> Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:
> 
>           What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
>         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
> 
> --- Comment #7 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2010-02-10 09:49:24 EST ---
> None of the OpenSSH developers are in favour of adding this, and this
> situation has not changed for several years. This is not a slight on
> Simon's patch, which is of fine quality, but just that a) we don't
> trust GSSAPI implementations that much and b) we don't like adding new
> KEX since they are pre-auth attack surface. This one is particularly
> scary, since it requires hooks out to typically root-owned system
> resources.
> 
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