![]() To check what effect a configuration change has on the server, it’s helpful to use the -T parameter and grep the output for the configuration key you want to inspect. Examples include ssh-ed25519 and ecdsa-sha2-nistp384. Certificates signed using any other algorithm will not be accepted for public key or host-based authentication. Examples include and of algorithms that certificate authorities (CAs) are allowed to use to sign certificates. Examples include and of signature algorithms that will be accepted for public key authentication. It lists the available host key signature algorithms that the server offers. Examples include curve25519-sha256 and is a server-only configuration option. List of available key exchange (kex) algorithms. Examples include gss-gex-sha1- and gss-group14-sha256. It lists the key exchange (kex) algorithms that are offered for Generic Security Services Application Program Interface (GSSAPI) key exchange, and only applies to connections using GSSAPI. Examples include hmac-sha2-256 and option is not available in OpenSSH upstream, and is provided via a patch that Ubuntu and many other Linux Distributions carry. The -etm versions calculate the MAC after encryption and are considered safer. Examples include aes256-ctr and of Message Authentication Code algorithms, used for data integrity protection. Unless otherwise noted, they apply to both the server and the client. Here are the configuration settings that control the cryptographic algorithms selection. Instead, we will show the configuration options, and some examples of how to use them. It’s not the goal of this documentation to repeat the excellent upstream documentation (see references). It cannot therefore be used to test the crypto configuration changes. The output of the ssh -Q command will not take into consideration the configuration changes that may have been made. For example, ssh -Q ciphers will show the available list of ciphers. With rare exceptions, the list of algorithms can be queried by running ssh -Q, where is the configuration setting name. Wildcards ( *) are also allowed, but be careful to not inadvertently include or exclude something that wasn’t intended. For example, PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms ^ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 will move both signature algorithms to the start of the set. The specified ciphers will be placed at the beginning of the default set. For example, KexAlgorithms -diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 will remove both key exchange algorithms from the current set. The specified algorithm(s) will be removed from the default set. For example, MACs +hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256 will append both Message Authentication Code (MAC) algorithms to the end of the current set. The specified algorithm(s) will be appended to the end of the default set. Instead of specifying the full list, which will replace the existing default one, some manipulations are allowed. For example, Ciphers will replace the current set of ciphers with the two named algorithms. The lists are algorithm names separated by commas. The first algorithm in the list that the client offers to the server, which matches an offer from the server, is what will be selected. Most of the configuration options that take a list of cryptographic algorithms follow a defined set of rules. You can inadvertently lock yourself out of a remote system! Algorithm configuration general rules ![]() Or a compliance rule that isn’t up-to-date with the current crypto standards doesn’t allow a more advanced cipher.īe careful when restricting cryptographic algorithms in SSH, specially on the server side. Perhaps a legacy system or piece of hardware that is still in production is not compatible with the current encryption schemes and requires legacy algorithms to be enabled again. Sometimes, however, a compliance rule, or a set of legacy servers, or something else, requires a change in this selection. The default selection of algorithms for each stage should be good enough for the majority of deployment scenarios. Each one of these stages will use some form of encryption, and there are configuration settings that control which cryptographic algorithms can be used at each step. Establishing an SSH connection to a remote service involves multiple stages.
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