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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
 install?
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 21:43:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 09:53:05 -0000 (UTC), Jason H wrote:

> On 08/06/2025 10:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I have come across one or two situations where the Dropbear client
>> would connect to an SSH server where OpenSSH (by default) would
>> not. The difference was that Dropbear was more willing to tolerate
>> old, insecure encryption algorithms which OpenSSH rejected.
>>
>> Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing ...
> 
> You can get OpenSSH to accept an older algorithm (either at the command
> line or in your ~.ssh/config.

I know, I have done that. I seem to recall a situation where even that 
didn’t help ...