From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91255 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2015 15:35:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 91224 invoked by uid 89); 28 Oct 2015 15:35:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ausc60ps301.us.dell.com Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com (HELO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com) (143.166.148.206) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:35:04 +0000 X-LoopCount0: from 10.175.216.249 From: To: CC: Subject: Re: Question about SSH protocol for developper access Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C2DAE58-8CAA-427E-9A21-76431A63D593@dell.com> References: <001101d1116d$817b8b80$8472a280$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> In-Reply-To: <001101d1116d$817b8b80$8472a280$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: <651939E477E3F240913DA295E704819F@dell.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 > On Oct 28, 2015, at 6:43 AM, Pierre Muller wrote: >=20 >=20 > I am not sure this is the correct mailing list for this question, > but I was wondering if it would not be better to allow now also SSH versi= on > 2 keys > for remote write access to Gnu repositories. >=20 > The reason for me to ask is simply that protocol 1 is now disabled by > default on Cygwin installation. > This means that ssh-agent, which I normally use to avoid having to type my > password > each time I access git repository for instance, does not work for my > SSH-version 1 key anymore. >=20 > I suppose that this has to do with the fact that version 1 is less > "secure" than version 2. > what are the reasons why GNU still insists on only using version 1 keys? I don't believe that it does. I have an SSH 2 key registered with the GNU = servers, not a V1 key. Maybe all you need to do is submit your SSH V2 key. A related question is whether the GNU servers should disable SSH V1 across = the board. It seems like a good idea to do so. paul