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authorHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2015-11-20 21:03:37 +0100
committerHans Nilsson <[email protected]>2015-11-23 14:19:23 +0100
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ssh: documentation updates
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diff --git a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_app.xml b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_app.xml
index 29cbbd79a2..79dd1e210e 100644
--- a/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_app.xml
+++ b/lib/ssh/doc/src/ssh_app.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,19 @@
<p>Supported algorithms are:</p>
<taglist>
+ <tag>Key exchange algorithms</tag>
+ <item>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp256</item>
+ <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp384</item>
+ <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp521</item>
+ <item>diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1</item>
+ <item>diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256</item>
+ <item>diffie-hellman-group14-sha1</item>
+ <item>diffie-hellman-group1-sha1</item>
+ </list>
+ </item>
+
<tag>Public key algorithms</tag>
<item>
<list type="bulleted">
@@ -157,30 +170,26 @@
</list>
</item>
- <tag>Encryption algorithms</tag>
+ <tag>Encryption algorithms (ciphers)</tag>
<item>
<list type="bulleted">
+ <item>[email protected] (AEAD_AES_128_GCM)</item>
+ <item>[email protected] (AEAD_AES_256_GCM)</item>
<item>aes128-ctr</item>
<item>aes192-ctr</item>
<item>aes256-ctr</item>
<item>aes128-cbc</item>
<item>3des-cbc</item>
</list>
+ <p>Following the internet de-facto standard, the cipher and mac algorithm AEAD_AES_128_GCM is selected when the
+ cipher [email protected] is negotiated. The cipher and mac algorithm AEAD_AES_256_GCM is selected when the
+ cipher [email protected] is negotiated.
+ </p>
+ <p>See the text at the description of <seealso marker="#rfc5647_note">the rfc 5647 further down</seealso>
+ for more information.
+ </p>
</item>
-
- <tag>Key exchange algorithms</tag>
- <item>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp256</item>
- <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp384</item>
- <item>ecdh-sha2-nistp521</item>
- <item>diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1</item>
- <item>diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256</item>
- <item>diffie-hellman-group14-sha1</item>
- <item>diffie-hellman-group1-sha1</item>
- </list>
- </item>
-
+
<tag>Compression algorithms</tag>
<item>
<list type="bulleted">
@@ -255,6 +264,30 @@
<p></p>
</item>
+ <item><url href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5647">RFC 5647</url>, AES Galois Counter Mode for
+ the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol.
+ <p><marker id="rfc5647_note"/>There is an ambiguity in the synchronized selection of cipher and mac algorithm.
+ This is resolved by OpenSSH in the ciphers [email protected] and [email protected] which are implemented.
+ If the explicit ciphers and macs AEAD_AES_128_GCM or AEAD_AES_256_GCM are needed,
+ they could be enabled with the option preferred_algorithms.
+ <warning>
+ If the client or the server is not Erlang/OTP, it is the users responsibility to check that
+ other implementation has the same interpretation of AEAD_AES_*_GCM as the Erlang/OTP SSH before
+ enabling them. The aes*[email protected] variants are always safe to use since they lack the
+ ambiguity.
+ </warning>
+ </p>
+ <p>The second paragraph in section 5.1 is resolved as:
+ <list type="ordered">
+ <item>If the negotiated cipher is AEAD_AES_128_GCM, the mac algorithm is set to AEAD_AES_128_GCM.</item>
+ <item>If the negotiated cipher is AEAD_AES_256_GCM, the mac algorithm is set to AEAD_AES_256_GCM.</item>
+ <item>If the mac algorithm is AEAD_AES_128_GCM, the cipher is set to AEAD_AES_128_GCM.</item>
+ <item>If the mac algorithm is AEAD_AES_256_GCM, the cipher is set to AEAD_AES_256_GCM.</item>
+ </list>
+ The first rule that matches when read in order from the top is applied
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
<item><url href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5656">RFC 5656</url>, Elliptic Curve Algorithm Integration in
the Secure Shell Transport Layer.
<p>Except
@@ -266,6 +299,13 @@
</list>
</p>
</item>
+
+ <item><url href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6668">RFC 6668</url>, SHA-2 Data Integrity Verification for
+ the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
+ <p>Comment: Defines hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha2-512
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
</list>
</section>