On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 06:39:59PM GMT, Jonathan Paquet wrote:
> Hi,
>      I am working as VMware SME, and I need to update the security template
> that we are using.
> 
> One of the settings that we have is the Serverkeybits. By default this
> setting is not present on the sshd config file.
> 
> The protocol is set to 2 by default.
> 
> I am a little confused, because some website on the net say that
> serverkeybits only apply when using protocol 1, and other say that it apply
> no matter what.
> 
> Basically, I would need to know if I need to integrate this setting if we
> use protocol 2 or if this is not needed?

Hi Jonathan,

No, this setting only applies to protocol version 1.

Regards,

Raf

> The minimum key encryption that we want to allow is 1024, and the version
> of openssh on esxi 6 is 7.1p1. Openssl 1.0.1p.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan

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