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Figure out sshd algorithms for noble #7281

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legoktm opened this issue Oct 28, 2024 · 0 comments
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Figure out sshd algorithms for noble #7281

legoktm opened this issue Oct 28, 2024 · 0 comments
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legoktm commented Oct 28, 2024

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Our sshd_config ships with:

# Cipher selection

Ciphers aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr
# Don't use SHA1 for kex
KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
# Don't use SHA1 for hashing, don't use encrypt-and-MAC mode
MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com

We should update this for noble.

I was reading through https://blog.stribik.technology/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html because I was trying to understand the whole /etc/ssh/moduli and it seems like we could drop diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 for diffie-hellman-group14-sha256/diffie-hellman-group16-sha512/diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 and not have to deal with the moduli file. But I guess the group exchange one is preferred?

Also instead of setting a fixed list, we could just subtract the ones we don't want, so we get the advantage of newer algos without needing to manually update our lists each time. It also supports wildcards so theoretically do something like KexAlgorithms -*sha1.

Per https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/sshd_config.5.html the upstream default currently is:

Ciphers

chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,
aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,
aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com

KexAlgorithms

sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com,
curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,
ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,
diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,
diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,
diffie-hellman-group14-sha256

MACs

umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,
hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,
hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,
umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,
hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1

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