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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 20, 2024

Ability to manually exclude specific cipher suites for SSH

We've been chatting to support desk about the support for disabling/excluding specific cipher suites for SSH. As geographical perspectives (and thus necessities) could potentially differ from one another, we'd like to opt for a feature request, for the ability to manually define which cipher suites are enabled, or rather disabled, for SSH.

The issue that we were discussing about in our support case:

We’ve been using the ssh-audit tool, which made us consider excluding some specific cipher suites for SSH. These related sources might be of interest to check out for yourselves:

Would you mind taking a look? It’d be great if you could check them out and see if this might be something worth considering on your end too. Of course, if you think this might be an issue that could potentially relate to other customers, this could help us all.

Also, is there an officially supported way for us to manually disable or exclude certain ciphers? We’re obviously only looking for officially endorsed methods when changing any settings in this regard. This could also be useful for future reference.

Thanks for your help so far, and looking forward to your thoughts!

Idea priority Low