Comment 5 for bug 1499392

Thank you Colin, that's great news.

I think we should have a discussion about which algorithms to deprecate, when, for the whole distribution. I'd like a consistent approach to when we stop supporting md5/sha-1/rc4 etc. Of course different protocols may have different threat models so it may not be appropriate to apply a single blanket rule for any algorithm, but supporting 16.04 LTS in 2021 makes me think that we ought to be willing to cut the algorithms known to be weak today.

OpenSSH's choices for e.g. 7.1 will probably make a lot of sense for today but may make less sense in five years, when we're still supporting 7.1 but they've moved on. Other upstreams may not be as reliable as OpenSSH, either, and second guessing their choices may make more sense.

Thanks