You could alternately install alternate SSH clients (non-OpenSSH) for this purpose.

  $ rpm -qi putty | tail -1
  Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.

  $ rpm -qi dropbear | tail -2
  Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It's particularly useful
  for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers.

The focus for SSH is safety. These others shift more to broad compatibility; I do wish they would throw warnings for weak ciphers.