Re:Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH
by mkj on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:15PM
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I don't think dropping the server-sig-algs packet gives any additional downgrade capability? If a server is going to accept a rsa sha1 signature it will accept it regardless of whether the client receives the server-sig-algs or not. Performing a rsa sha1 signature doesn't cause any exposure for a client (that I know of?).
server-sig-algs was only added for compatibility, so new clients wouldn't get kicked off old servers that don't accept rsa-sha2 pubkey auth packets. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8308#page-7
server-sig-algs was only added for compatibility, so new clients wouldn't get kicked off old servers that don't accept rsa-sha2 pubkey auth packets. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8308#page-7