Also, a lot of measurement/research on deployment of OpenSSH rely on version advertising for their statistics. It's going to be harder to know impact of deprecation of certain legacy features without statistics. I also agree with Mark here. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:57 AM Mark D. Baushke <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nagesh writes: > > > Cyber security team has recommended to disable the OpenSSH software > > version advertising when the connection has been established. > > With respect, your cyber security team are foolish if they think that > obscurity of version will stop any bad actors from attempting to break > into OpenSSH in any way possible. The only folks hurt by supressing the > version advertising are the other implementations of the Secure Shell. > > Please DO NOT allow the supression of the OpenSSH version number. > > There are too just many cases where both OpenSSH interoperating with > itself as well as other SSH implementations have needed this version > number to properly deal with bugs in the code via negitations. > > This bug should be closed with WONTFIX. > > Thank you, > -- Mark > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
