It's an option now as "-c des."  This was added in 2.3.0 for compatability
with Cisco IOS' ssh feature as it only uses des encryption.

Peter Lukas

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Austad, Jay wrote:

> Speaking of OpenSSH, does anyone know how to make it do DES for a cipher?
> Right now, it will use only 3DES and Blowfish.  I was going to recompile it
> and try to enable DES as a cipher, but I don't see where I can do that.
> 
> I know I should use 3des, but I have a piece of network equipment that will
> only let me ssh in using DES.  I don't want to have to use my windows box
> anymore to ssh in with SecureCRT.  Also, I noticed the commercial version of
> ssh for unix will not use DES either.
> 
> I should be able to do:
> ssh -c des host.whatever.com
> 
> Jay
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu [mailto:dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:48 PM
> > To: HOEFFNER at dcmir.med.umn.edu; tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> > Cc: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu
> > Subject: [TCLUG] Re: [TCLUG:23792] OPENSSH
> > 
> > 
> > You may as well compile 2.3.0p1.  I just compiled it one a 
> > default RH6.2
> > install (well, I had to install OpenSSL first, of course) and 
> > it compiled
> > just fine.  Beside, OpenSSH just announced a bug in versions 
> > < 2.3.0 that
> > allows people to arbitrarily open X authentication through 
> > you, or some
> > such evil thing.  The notice came out a couple days ago.  Sadly, I've
> > deleted it, but I'm sure it's on their page somewhere.
> > 
> > Gabe
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:36:03PM -0600, 
> > HOEFFNER at dcmir.med.umn.edu wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the reply. I'm installing 2.2.0p1. I've managed 
> > to install it on 2
> > > versions of Irix, but not without a few difficulties. Now 
> > this. I'm figuring I
> > > must've run configure wrong since it really shouldn't be as 
> > difficult as it has
> > > been, but I can't see how. I was hoping some of you guys 
> > would've seen this
> > > before. Oh well...
> > > 
> > > Thanks again
> > > 
> > > Ed Hoeffner
> > 
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