They were removed from Atheme, because people thought them to be more
secure than PLAIN + SSL, so ZNC shouldn't advertise them as secure.
I think that DH-AES and DH-BLOWFISH should say something about not being
widely supported, but I am not sure what. Newer Atheme doesn't support
it and with Anope they are optional unlike PLAIN and EXTERNAL that are
in their SASL core.
Atheme has dropped them in their git version.
https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/15f6d84
I would also like EXTERNAL to be trid by default, but \*Cert and \*CertFP
aren't so used and that wouldn't probably be accepted.
The following people agreed with the change, in alphabetical order:
(people who approved in several ways are listed only once)
By email:
- Adam (from Anope)
- Austin Morton
- Brian Campbell
- Christian Walde
- Daniel Holbert
- Daniel Wallace
- Falk Seidel
- Heiko Hund
- Ingmar Runge
- Jim Hull
- Kyle Fuller
- Lee Aylward
- Martin Martimeo
- Matt Harper
- Michael J Edgar
- Michael Ziegler
- Nick Bebout
- Paul Driver
- Perry Nguyen
- Philippe (cycomate)
- Reuben Morais
- Roland Hieber
- Sebastian Ramacher
- Stefan Rado
- Stéphan Kochen
- Thomas Ward
- Toon Schoenmakers
- Veit Wahlich
- Wulf C. Krueger
By IRC:
- CNU
- Jonas Gorski
- Joshua M. Clulow
- Prozac/SHiZNO
- SilverLeo
- Uli Schlachter
At https://github.com/znc/znc/issues/311 :
- Alexey Sokolov
- Elizabeth Myers
- flakes
- Jens-Andre Koch
- Jyzee
- KindOne/ineedalifetoday
- Lee Williams
- Mantas Mikulėnas
- md-5
- Reed Loden
At the last few pull requests' comments:
- Allan Odgaard
- Jacob Baines
- Lluís Batlle i Rossell
- ravomavain
- protomouse
The following commits' authors didn't respond:
Trivial changes:
- f70f1086fd
- 4ca8b50e45
The changes which are not presented in master anymore:
- 5512ed2ea0
- 960a4498f7
- 0f739de2c0
- 7f53cc810bFix#311Fix#218
This is superior to DH-BLOWFISH as Blowfish may suffer from certain
classes of weak keys, which is difficult to mitigate against without
regenerating DH parameters repeatedly. AES also has faced far more
scrutiny and is believed to be more secure.
Reference implementation (services-side):
https://github.com/atheme/atheme/blob/master/modules/saslserv/dh-aes.c
Alexey Sokolov