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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\"
.\" Created: Sat Apr 22 21:55:14 1995 ylo
.\"
-.\" $Id: ssh.1,v 1.24 2000/05/07 02:03:19 damien Exp $
+.\" $Id: ssh.1,v 1.25 2000/05/09 01:03:02 damien Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSH 1
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.Pp
.Nm ssh
.Op Fl afgknqtvxCPX246
-.Op Fl c Ar blowfish | 3des
+.Op Fl c Ar cipher_spec
.Op Fl e Ar escape_char
.Op Fl i Ar identity_file
.Op Fl l Ar login_name
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ This protocol 2 implementation does not yet support Kerberos or
S/Key authentication.
.Pp
Protocol 2 provides additional mechanisms for confidentiality
-(the traffic is encrypted using 3DES, blowfish, cast128 or arcfour)
+(the traffic is encrypted using 3DES, Blowfish, CAST128 or Arcfour)
and integrity (hmac-sha1, hmac-md5).
Note that protocol 1 lacks a strong mechanism for ensuring the
integrity of the connection.
@@ -342,10 +342,15 @@ It is believed to be secure.
(triple-des) is an encrypt-decrypt-encrypt triple with three different keys.
It is presumably more secure than the
.Ar des
-cipher which is no longer supported in ssh.
+cipher which is no longer supported in
+.Nm ssh .
.Ar blowfish
is a fast block cipher, it appears very secure and is much faster than
.Ar 3des .
+.It Fl c Ar "3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,arcfour,cast128-cbc"
+Additionally, for protocol version 2 a comma-separated list of ciphers can
+be specified in order of preference. Protocol version 2 supports
+3DES, Blowfish and CAST128 in CBC mode and Arcfour.
.It Fl e Ar ch|^ch|none
Sets the escape character for sessions with a pty (default:
.Ql ~ ) .
@@ -601,7 +606,7 @@ Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2
in order of preference.
Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.
The default is
-.Dq blowfish-cbc,3des-cbc,arcfour,cast128-cbc .
+.Dq 3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,arcfour,cast128-cbc .
.It Cm Compression
Specifies whether to use compression.
The argument must be
@@ -785,7 +790,7 @@ The default is
This means that
.Nm
tries version 1 and falls back to version 2
-if version 1 is no available.
+if version 1 is not available.
.It Cm ProxyCommand
Specifies the command to use to connect to the server.
The command