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=== Base System OpenSSH Update Links: + link:https://www.openssh.com/[OpenSSH] URL: link:https://www.openssh.com/[https://www.openssh.com/] + link:https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-September/010473.html[Announcement to freebsd-security@] URL: link:https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-September/010473.html[https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-September/010473.html] Contact: Ed Maste <[email protected]> OpenSSH, a suite of remote login and file transfer tools, was updated from version 8.7p1 to 8.8p1 in the FreeBSD base system. *NOTE*: OpenSSH 8.8p1 disables the ssh-rsa signature scheme by default. For more information please see the link:https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-September/010473.html[Important note for future FreeBSD base system OpenSSH update] mailing list post. OpenSSH supports link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO2_Project[FIDO]/link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor[U2F] devices, and support is now enabled in the base system. Next steps include integrating U2F key devd rules into the base system, and merging the updated OpenSSH and FIDO/U2F support to stable branches. Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation