Technical Summary
This document deprecates RC4 in Secure Shell (SSH). Therefore, this
document updates [RFC4253], and moves to Historic status [RFC4345].
Working Group Summary
This is an uncontroversial document to deprecate a weak cryptographic
algorithm from the protocol; no opposition was raised.
Document Quality
This document just recommends to remove support for a feature,
so there is little to implement or review. The ciphers in question
have been entirely removed from at least one implementation's latest
released version.
Personnel
Daniel Migault is the shepherd of the draft. Benjamin Kaduk is
the responsible area director.
RFC Editor Note
RFC Editor Note
In the IANA Considerations, please update the table to include "HISTORIC" in the
"Note" column for all three ciphers.
Also, in Section 1, "arcfour-128" and "arcfour-256" appear with hyphens; the hyphen
should be removed.
Once an RFC number is assigned for this document, status-change-ssh-arcfour-to-historic
should be updated to refer to the RFC instead of the I-D.