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> maybe consider if it really is required for our ssh client to
> support old versions of sshd with flawed algorithms. the best
> way might be to just wait it out until ther servers get hacked
> or they update.

Yeah -- that was what prompted this patch; right now the connection
drops and the server reports that it got an unexpected packet. We
could at least say that we don't support the server's ciphers.