Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-26 Thread Michael van Elst
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:34:49AM +, David Holland wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 06:57:23AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > > Also consider that people believe their data is safe in the current > > virtualized world, just because someone calls "encryption". > > Gung znxrf lbhe

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-25 Thread David Holland
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 06:57:23AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > >(1) having an unencrypted option at all is one of the ways spooks like > >to weaken cryptosystems; it creates ways to force/cause people to use > >it when they didn't mean to. > > People have to be very clear in making that

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-24 Thread Tom Spindler (moof)
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 05:30:36PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > On May 3, 13:00, Greg Troxel wrote: > } mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > } > } > Part of the HPN patches is to optionally strip encryption (and now even > } > integrity checks) for the data transfer. Doesn't fit into

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-24 Thread Michael van Elst
dholland-t...@netbsd.org (David Holland) writes: >(1) having an unencrypted option at all is one of the ways spooks like >to weaken cryptosystems; it creates ways to force/cause people to use >it when they didn't mean to. People have to be very clear in making that choice and they actually use

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-24 Thread Michael van Elst
jnem...@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth) writes: > I would say it is something that should be available as an >option (likely a command line option). ssh/scp has pretty much >completely replaced rsh/rcp (other than for people that go out of >their way to use those); however, there are many things

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-23 Thread David Holland
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 05:30:36PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote: > } I would say that doesn't really fit with what we want either, certainly > } without somebody really trying. It breaks the rule that using ssh can > } count on confidentiality and integrity and makes systems with ssh as a > }

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-23 Thread John Nemeth
On May 3, 13:00, Greg Troxel wrote: } mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: } } > Part of the HPN patches is to optionally strip encryption (and now even } > integrity checks) for the data transfer. Doesn't fit into what } > the OpenSSH people want, not even as an option. } } I would say

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-03 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >I would say that doesn't really fit with what we want either, certainly >without somebody really trying. It breaks the rule that using ssh can >count on confidentiality and integrity and makes systems with ssh as a >component harder to reason about.

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-03 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > Part of the HPN patches is to optionally strip encryption (and now even > integrity checks) for the data transfer. Doesn't fit into what > the OpenSSH people want, not even as an option. I would say that doesn't really fit with what we want

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-03 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >I view HPN as not the standard approach; it hasn't been merged upstream >and PSC's agenda does not even seem to include merging any of it >upstream -- which I see as a huge clue. Looks more like upstream was never interested and PSC gave up. Part of the

Re: disable HPN in sshd for the -10 branch?

2022-05-03 Thread Greg Troxel
nia writes: > I've heard some reports that the HPN-SSH patches to sshd are > not quite working as well as expected, with some users getting > mildly worse results. They're apparently supposed to improve > performance: > > https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/ > > With "HPNDisabled" in sshd_config