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ssh-audit-3.9.0

ssh configuration security auditing tool

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Description

ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server & client configuration auditing Features: * SSH1 and SSH2 protocol server support * analyze SSH client configuration * grab banner, recognize device or software and OS, detect compression * gather key-exchange, host-key, encryption and MAC algorithms * output algorithm information (available since, removed/disabled, unsafe/weak/legacy, etc) * output algorithm recommendations (append or remove based on recognized software version) * output security information (related issues, assigned CVE list, etc) * analyze SSH version compatibility based on algorithm information * historical information from OpenSSH, Dropbear SSH and libssh * policy scans to ensure adherence to a hardened/standard configuration

Package information

Ports path
security/ssh-audit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Pavel Korovin <pvk@openbsd.org>
Categories
security, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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