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by eliasmacpherson 4613 days ago
I found your comment somewhat cryptic, the asterisks mean it's affected, right?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729029

"AES-GCM support was introduced in 6.2, so oldstable and stable should be fine (from http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.2):"

Debian 7 (wheezy) -- OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 (Supports AES-GCM)

If AES-GCM was introduced in 6.2, did someone patch 6.0 to support AES-GCM? I can't reconcile your list with the statement in the bug report otherwise. Could you explain?

I can't understand why AES-GCM was introduced in 6.2 and your list has many < 6.2 that support AES-GCM.

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I _think_ he's talking about whether or not OpenSSL supports AES-GCM.

e.g. Debian 7 has a version of OpenSSL that supports AES-GCM, but OpenSSH isn't one of the affected versions.