Dear Maintainer,
While trying to connect to an old dropbear server, I was surprised to
find that the 'openssh-client-ssh1' package was able to do that even
though no version of dropbear has ever been able to use SSH1.
It turns out that the openssh-client-ssh1 package provides a lot of
important legacy SSH protocol features and versions which are no longer
provided by the ordinary openssh-client package, only one of which
is (non default!) support for SSH1.
I'd like to update the package description to something like:
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secure shell (SSH) client for legacy and deprecated SSH protocol
versions and features including
.
- SSH protocol version 1
- ssh-rsa signatures
- ssh-dss
- RC4, Blowfish, DES and old DH groups
- SHA-1 based KEX/MAC
.
This package is useful for logging in to old systems which
are not compatible with current versions of OpenSSH. It should
not normally be used with up-to-date systems.
.
In some countries it may be illegal to use any encryption at all
without a special permit.
.
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My intent is to move the focus away from SSH 1 by listing
some of the other major differences. I also threw out the
references to rsh, rcp and rlogin, which have been obsolete for
25 years, i.e. so long that most users aren't helped by the comparison
since they've never used rsh and friends.