On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:26:18PM +0000, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2001 23:09, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Will old clients work with new servers but not vice-versa, or the > > reverse? or will neither old clients work with new servers nor new > > clients with old servers? > > The latter, unfortunately. Given that the draft is a draft, and my patches > have yet to be (and may never be) added to the core codebase, I've not tried > to maintain backwards compatibility at this point. The changes affect > userauth, rather than key exchange. So those who don't disable GSSAPI key > exchange shouldn't see any compatibilty problems. Userauth will, however, > fail. As I said, I hope that this will be the last patch that breaks > backwards compatibility.
I'm not complaining. I use keyex anyways, so I won't be affected then. > > Where's the draft at wrt publication as an RFC? > > >From recent WG traffic I believe that there are a number of minor issues > which will be resolved in the next revision. I shall have to read the archives, I guess. Of course, the SSHv2 drafts have to progress too... > Cheers, > > Simon. Thanks again, Nico -- -DISCLAIMER: an automatically appended disclaimer may follow. By posting- -to a public e-mail mailing list I hereby grant permission to distribute- -and copy this message.- Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
