[mosh-devel] [Curdle] RSA key transport for SSH (RFC 4432) and forward secrecy

[Simon Tatham]

Mark D. Baushke <mdb at juniper.net> wrote:
> Is anyone actively using rsa2048-sha256 for a Ssecure Shell Key
> exchange per RFC 4432. 

I passed this question on to Ben Harris, also on the PuTTY team and the
originator of RFC 4432 in the first place (hence, the person most likely
to have actually used it seriously). He replied

"No. It never became adequately mainstream, and faster CPUs and elliptic
curves have rendered it obsolete."

So I think the PuTTY team has no objection to retiring it.

Cheers,
Simon

-- 
for k in [pow(x,37,0x1a1298d262b49c895d47f) for x in [0x50deb914257022de7fff,
0x213558f2215127d5a2d1, 0x90c99e86d08b91218630, 0x109f3d0cfbf640c0beee7,
0xc83e01379a5fbec5fdd1, 0x19d3d70a8d567e388600e, 0x534e2f6e8a4a33155123]]:
 print("".join([chr(32+3*((k>>x)&1))for x in range(79)])) # <anakin at pobox.com>