I’d be willing to take a look at it for you George. 

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> On Jun 10, 2021, at 11:31 AM, George Joseph <gjos...@sangoma.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> You already know about the SSH host key issue related to the upgrade of 
> Gerrit we did on May 28th.    That issue we knew about in advance so we gave 
> everyone advance notice.  Well, we discovered another issue related to SSH 
> but this one was after the fact...
> 
> We use a Jira plugin to display open Gerrit reviews for issues.  This plugin 
> is quite old and we discovered last Tuesday that it was using SSH Key 
> Exchange Algorithms (kex) that are also quite old and known to be insecure.  
> With the Gerrit upgrade, those older kex algorithms were removed so Jira was 
> no longer able to log into gerrit via ssh and retrieve the reviews.
> 
> So we actually have two issues...  First Gerrit really messed up with their 
> release notes because there was absolutely no mention of the implications of 
> their upgrading their SSH backend.  I've taken that up with them.   Second, 
> the Gerrit plugin for Jira really needs an update but it's not well 
> maintained and although we could fix it, we're not exactly overstaffed right 
> now.   The Gerrit team did agree to re-enable the older kex algorithms in 
> their 3.4.1 release but that only helps us in the short term as they will 
> eventually be deprecated for good.
> 
> So while we should have the integration working again shortly, we're still 
> not sure what to do in the long term.   Would any of you with Java experience 
> be able to take a look at the jira-gerrit-plugin[1]?  It's actually not that 
> complex but it needs its SSH backend (com.jcraft.jsch) replaced.   If any of 
> you are interested, let me know and I can give you the details.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/MeetMe/jira-gerrit-plugin
> 
> 
> 
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