Daily Archive: November 3, 2013

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Curve25519-SHA256 is the default KEX in openSSH too now!

Since some hours is the default KEX in OpenSSH! Several weeks ago Aris added a new Elliptic Curve algorithm for key exchange using Curve25519. After he wrote some kind of a RFC and implemented it in libssh he started to suggest a patch for OpenSSH which finally has been integrated.