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This seems like a great idea. Unfortunately most of the recommendations seem to not be supported on my MacOS machine. Also, when I paired it down to the ones that are supported I wasn't able to connect to github. :( Very annoying.


OS X 10.10 Yosemite ships with OpenSSH_6.2p2.

Use Homebrew [1] to install 6.6p1 with its bug fixes and enhancements:

    brew install openssh --with-brewed-openssl --with-keychain-support
[1]http://brew.sh

Reference: How to Update OpenSSH on Mac OS X at http://www.dctrwatson.com/2013/07/how-to-update-openssh-on-m...


Agreed. And to add to it, even though Yosemite has OpenSSH 6.2p2, it has most of the newer features disabled.

FWIW, this is what I have in my config file on Mac.

  Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes128-ctr
  MACs hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1


See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849392 for how to safely upgrade Yosemite’s OpenSSH to 6.6p1.




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