On 02/20/2019 07:51 AM, Mark D. Baushke wrote: > 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. FWIW, and without dismissing the possibility of fingerprinting a server in other ways, the fact that clients that *can* pass authentication have a need to know the server's version number (and vice versa) does not necessarily imply that that information needs to be passed in the *public* part of the protocol ... Regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur www.binect.de www.facebook.de/binect
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