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sandGorgon on Sept 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Upgrade your SSH keys

why do you need to do client-side ? The server side will enforce the algorithms that are allowed.

tw04 on Sept 25, 2016 [–]

That's because I don't always control the servers I'm connecting to. Setting that client-side will prevent me from ever connecting to something that's completely insecure unknowingly.

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