Hi. On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 07:12:32AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 14:27 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > Ciphers chacha20-poly1...@openssh.com,aes256-...@openssh.com > > What's your thoughts on extending that a bit by adding aes256-ctr to > that list?
Don't use it, unless compatibility with certain Windows SSH clients is required. [1] is a good read on this Cipher. What I can consider is ADEAD variety of AES, but - I'm uncertain whenever it made its way to OpenSSH at all. It's not in Stretch's version of openssh, that's for sure. Reco [1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/18538/aes256-cbc-vs-aes256-ctr-in-ssh