----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aris Adamantiadis" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 5:26:48 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 > > Hi Anderson, > > Thanks for your contribution. I am not particularly fond of hardcoded DH > groups such as group14 or group16, especially since we have > dh-group-exchange now. Is it needed to connect to some device that has > group16 but doesn't have dh-gex?
The objective is to allow the use of large groups (> 2048 bits) as defined in RFC 8268 [1]. It would be interesting to have this support in libssh. I am planning to add other hardcoded groups (at least group18), if you agree on this. Best Regards, Anderson [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8268
