feat(ssh): let an old host negotiate the algorithms SSH has retired - #1521
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dartssh2 proposes a modern-only set, and since the hardening in #1318 the retired algorithms are not in it at all. A daemon that predates RFC 8332 - a router's dropbear, a switch - advertises only the SHA-1 ssh-rsa host key, so the handshake ends at host-key negotiation with 'No matching host key algorithm', before authentication is attempted (#1490). Add SshCredential.allowLegacyAlgorithms and SshAlgorithms.legacy, which appends the retired algorithms after the modern ones so a host offering anything current still negotiates it and only one with nothing else falls through. Off by default; stored in a new server.ssh_allow_legacy_algorithms column (schema v27).
The switch lives in the server editor's SSH advanced group, beside the file transport and for the same reason: a fact about one old host that the app cannot work out for itself. It follows the SSH switch, since saving with SSH off writes ssh: null. Documented on the SSH connection page in both languages.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 4 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds per-server support for legacy SSH algorithms. Modern algorithms remain the default. Enabled credentials append legacy host-key, key-exchange, cipher, and MAC algorithms. The setting is included in credential equality, JSON conversion, database storage, schema migration, and server editing controls. Existing servers default to disabled. Password and key-authenticated SSH clients use the selected algorithms. Documentation, localization, migration tests, algorithm tests, and equality tests were added. Priority: ➖ Normal Change: Feature 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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🟡 Minor · Add allowLegacyAlgorithms to both SshCredential model examples. · ssh.md:35
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allowLegacyAlgorithmsto bothSshCredentialmodel examples.Both pages document the property below the model example, but neither example declares it.
docs/src/content/docs/principles/ssh.md#L35-L35: Add the boolean field to the English model example.docs/src/content/docs/zh/principles/ssh.md#L35-L35: Add the boolean field to the Chinese model example.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Use a clear per-server setting description. · ssh.md:50
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse a clear per-server setting description.
按服务器给出的答案reads as “the answer given by the server.” It does not clearly describe a setting configured per server. Replace it with针对每台服务器的设置or equivalent.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Describe legacy fallback per algorithm category. · ssh.md:50
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDescribe legacy fallback per algorithm category.
SSH negotiates host-key, KEX, cipher, and MAC algorithms independently. A server can use a modern host key while selecting a legacy cipher or MAC. (rfc-editor.org)
docs/src/content/docs/principles/ssh.md#L50-L50: replace the broad “only one with nothing else falls through” wording with a per-category explanation.docs/src/content/docs/zh/principles/ssh.md#L50-L50: apply the same per-category explanation in the Chinese translation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Host key, key exchange, cipher and MAC are negotiated independently, so the retired algorithms only apply to a category the server offers nothing current for. Also state that the switch is configured per server.
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KEXINIT is bound into the exchange hash the host key signs (computeExchangeHash covers both payloads, and _verifyHostkey checks the signature), so a peer cannot silently force a weaker list on a connection whose key is verified. State the real reason the algorithms are retired - SHA-1 and small DH groups are weak - and recommend enabling the switch only for a trusted host.
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What this changes
Fixes #1490.
A Xiaomi AX3600 (MiWiFi 1.1.25, dropbear) stops connecting after the SSH hardening in #1318:
The daemon only advertises the SHA-1
ssh-rsahost key, and dartssh2's default set no longer contains it — the retired algorithms were removed from it incdc2e13, which landed here as part of #1318. The handshake therefore ends at host-key negotiation, before any authentication is attempted. RSA itself is not the problem: a current daemon uses thersa-sha2-256/rsa-sha2-512names, which were already proposed.The failure is pinned to the host key by the message itself. Had the key exchange failed, it would have read
No matching key exchange algorithm; that it says host key means the kex matched and only the host-key negotiation is missing — which for an old dropbear is the SHA-1ssh-rsaspelling.This adds
SshCredential.allowLegacyAlgorithms, off by default, andSshAlgorithms.legacy, which appends the retired algorithms after the modern ones. A host that offers anything current still negotiates it; only one with nothing else falls through. The retired set is built from a defaultSSHAlgorithms, so it moves with the fork's list instead of being a literal that can drift from it.The flag is stored in a new
server.ssh_allow_legacy_algorithmscolumn (schema v27) and exposed as a switch in the server editor's SSH advanced group, beside the file transport and following the SSH switch — saving with SSH off writesssh: null, so a choice made while it is off would be silently discarded.It is opt-in rather than a restored default because KEXINIT is unauthenticated: a list containing SHA-1 can be forced on a connection by an attacker even when the server would have offered something better. A host that needs it can be told so; every other host keeps the modern-only set.
How it was tested
flutter analyze lib test integration_test— clean.test/unit/ssh/ssh_algorithms_test.dart— the default set has no retired spelling; opting in appends them after the modern ones, withssh-rsalast.test/migration/m026_ssh_legacy_algorithms_test.dart— the column matches a fresh database, is safe to re-run, defaults off for existing rows, and round-trips the switch.test/unit/ssh/ssh_credential_equality_test.dart— the switch is part of==,hashCodeandisSameAs, since the algorithm set is fixed at handshake time.test/migration/m025_transport_switches_test.dart— its "final step" assertion was relaxed togreaterThan(25), so the chain can grow.test/migration,test/unit/server,test/unit/storeand the non-FFItest/unit/sshfiles, plustest/widget/server_edit_connection_test.dart. The only failures are 4 Windows-only environment issues unrelated to this change:proc_kill_test(spawns/bin/sh),service_manager_test(reads a real systemd journal) andschema_too_new_page_test(compares a path built with a mixed/separator). CI runs these on ubuntu.build_runnerandgen-l10nwere run; the generated files are included.cargo test --workspace— nothing undercrates/ormonitor/changed.Checklist
make analyzeand the relevantmake testtargets pass (see the Windows note above)make genwas run, if any model / ARB file changedcargo test --workspacepasses, if anything undercrates/ormonitor/changed — N/ASummary by CodeRabbit
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