Package: dropbear Version: 2014.65-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Since version 2013.56, dropbear has supported the hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha2-512 MAC algorithms, but they are disabled by default. According to the dropbear changelog, enabling them is a matter of uncommenting the following two lines in options.h:
/*#define DROPBEAR_SHA2_256_HMAC*/ /*#define DROPBEAR_SHA2_512_HMAC*/ Due to recent NSA revelations, some people are recommending users disable certain algorithms. If the recommendations at <https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html> are followed, there are no MAC algorithms left that dropbear supports unless these two mac algorithms are enabled. Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/dropbear/+bug/1409798 Ubuntu debdiff (should only need minor modifications for Debian): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/194634645/dropbear-utopic-vivid-debdiff.diff Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org