BetterCrypto / Applied-Crypto-Hardening

Best Current Practices regarding secure online communication and configuration of services using cryptography.
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Remove chacha20 #397

Open Dreamsorcerer opened 8 months ago

Dreamsorcerer commented 8 months ago

On the slim chance the project ever gets revived: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/

TLDR: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com needs to be removed from the list of supported ciphers (and certainly shouldn't be the preferred cipher anymore)