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  1. Bug #54180
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 54180

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In , Michael Stone (mstone) wrote : Re: Could ssh be augmented to support -c none?

severity wontfix
done

The answer is basically no. There's no simple way in the protocol to
tell whether or not the client or server are actually allowing none
encryption. (Allowed encryption types are represented by a bitmask,
SSH_CRYPT_NONE is 0.)

FWIW, I was interested in doing this myself until I actually dug into
the code. With enough special cases, you might be able to get it
working, but the result would not be pretty; upstream is openly hostile to
the idea of supporting the none encryption option.

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Mike Stone