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SSH Tunnel Set Allowed SSH Algorithms

Demonstrates the Chilkat SshTunnel.SetAllowedAlgorithms method, which restricts the SSH connection to a specific set of algorithms. A JsonObject supplies comma-separated allow-lists for the kex, hostKey, cipher, and mac categories. It must be called before Connect.

Important: You typically should not set allowed algorithms explicitly. By default Chilkat orders algorithms according to best practices and accounts for known vulnerabilities.

Background: SSH negotiates a mutually supported algorithm from each category at connection time, and pinning that choice makes an application brittle: if the server later drops a weak algorithm, the two sides may fail to agree and the tunnel stops working. The legitimate reasons to override are a security policy mandating specific algorithms or a compatibility problem with an old server; otherwise let the library's defaults evolve with current guidance.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the SshTunnel.SetAllowedAlgorithms method, which restricts the SSH connection to a
#  specific set of algorithms.  The only argument is a JsonObject.  It must be called before
#  Connect.
#  
#  Note: You typically should NOT set allowed algorithms explicitly.  By default Chilkat orders
#  algorithms according to best practices and accounts for known vulnerabilities.  Hard-coding
#  them can make an application brittle if a server later changes its allowed algorithms.

$tunnel = New-Object Chilkat.SshTunnel

#  List the allowed algorithms for each category, in order of preference.
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.UpdateString("kex","curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256")
$json.UpdateString("hostKey","ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256")
$json.UpdateString("cipher","chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-ctr")
$json.UpdateString("mac","hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512")

#  Apply the allow-list before connecting.
$success = $tunnel.SetAllowedAlgorithms($json)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($tunnel.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$tunnel.DestHostname = "db.internal.example.com"
$tunnel.DestPort = 5432

$sshPort = 22
$success = $tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",$sshPort)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($tunnel.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Connected.")

$waitForThreadExit = $true
$success = $tunnel.CloseTunnel($waitForThreadExit)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($tunnel.LastErrorText)
    exit
}