PuTTY wish securid

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summary: SecurID authentication (`securid-1@ssh.com' etc)
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: taxing: Needs external things we don't have (standards, users etc)
priority: dormant: This is an old feature request that we no longer think is relevant.

Several people have asked for support for the implementation of SecurID in ssh.com's server.

While older versions of ssh.com's server used a private authentication method `securid-1@ssh.com', it appears that more recent versions use `keyboard-interactive', for which PuTTY does have support.

We haven't seen a spec for the private method, so can't implement it in PuTTY, though there's a patch to support it in OpenSSH 3.7.1p2.

(There appears to be another spec for a custom method `secure-id', although I don't believe it's ever been discussed by the SSH working group or presented as an Internet-Draft, so that method name syntax is inappropriate. I'm not aware of any servers that implement it, either.)

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this wish as dormant, because it was a @ssh.com vendor extension, and ssh.com's server isn't widely used any more.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)