openssh/README.SUSE
Marcus Meissner 3f6eda5c88 - Update to openssh 9.9p1:
* No changes for askpass, see main package changelog for
    details.

- Update to openssh 9.9p1:
  = Future deprecation notice
  * OpenSSH plans to remove support for the DSA signature algorithm
    in early 2025. This release disables DSA by default at compile
    time. DSA, as specified in the SSHv2 protocol, is inherently
    weak - being limited to a 160 bit private key and use of the
    SHA1 digest. Its estimated security level is only 80 bits
    symmetric equivalent.
    OpenSSH has disabled DSA keys by default since 2015 but has
    retained run-time optional support for them. DSA was the only
    mandatory-to-implement algorithm in the SSHv2 RFCs, mostly
    because alternative algorithms were encumbered by patents when
    the SSHv2 protocol was specified.
    This has not been the case for decades at this point and better
    algorithms are well supported by all actively-maintained SSH
    implementations. We do not consider the costs of maintaining
    DSA in OpenSSH to be justified and hope that removing it from
    OpenSSH can accelerate its wider deprecation in supporting
    cryptography libraries.
  = Potentially-incompatible changes
  * ssh(1): remove support for pre-authentication compression.
    OpenSSH has only supported post-authentication compression in
    the server for some years. Compression before authentication
    significantly increases the attack surface of SSH servers and
    risks creating oracles that reveal information about
    information sent during authentication.

OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network/openssh?expand=0&rev=275
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There are following changes in default settings of ssh client and server:
* Accepting and sending of locale environment variables in protocol 2 is
enabled.
* PAM authentication is enabled and mostly even required, do not turn it off.
* In SLE15, root authentiation with password is enabled by default
(PermitRootLogin yes).
NOTE: this has security implications and is only done in order to not change
behaviour of the server in an update. We strongly suggest setting this option
either "prohibit-password" or even better to "no" (which disables direct
remote root login entirely).
* DSA authentication is enabled by default for maximum compatibility.
NOTE: do not use DSA authentication since it is being phased out for a reason
- the size of DSA keys is limited by the standard to 1024 bits which cannot
be considered safe any more.
* Accepting all RFC4419 specified DH group parameters. See KexDHMin in
ssh_config and sshd_config manual pages.
For more information on differences in SUSE OpenSSH package see README.FIPS