Hi Chris, thanks for taking the time to file this bug and help us make
Ubuntu better.
According to RFC 6151, this is not an urgent matter:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6151
I do think that it is rather odd that hmac-md5 is still the default, but
the upstream openssh authors seems to find that
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Title:
Picks hmac-md5 over hmac-sha1
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For precise, openssh-5.9 supports even more secure algorithms, so the line
should perhaps be:
MACs
hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,umac...@openssh.com,hmac-md5,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-sha2-512-96,hmac-sha2-256-96,hmac-md5-96
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