coreos-base/misc-files: Drop Ciphers, MACs, KexAlgorithms from sshd conf

Setting an absolute list was preventing newer options from being
enabled, leading to this scary error message from newer clients.

    $ ssh flatcar
    Warning: Permanently added '[127.0.0.1]:2222' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
    ** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.
    ** This session may be vulnerable to "store now, decrypt later" attacks.
    ** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html
    Last login: Wed Oct 15 10:05:46 UTC 2025 from 10.0.2.2 on pts/0
    Flatcar Container Linux by Kinvolk beta 4426.1.0 for QEMU

After going through each of the options, the only ones we were adding
above the current 10.2p1 defaults were the diffie-hellman-group KEX
algorithms. These were dropped upstream in 2024 because they are slower
while providing no benefit over other options. The continued presence of
ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ensures compatibility with default clients at least
as far back as 2016.

I think we should just continue to follow the upstream defaults unless
some significant client breakage is reported. They're usually quite
forgiving.

The order of these is significant, and our order did differ from
upstream's slightly, but I trust their order over ours.

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <[email protected]>

Author: chewi

changelog/changes/2026-01-02-sshd-config.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Dropped Ciphers, MACs, and KexAlgorithms from the sshd configuration so that the OpenSSH upstream defaults are used. This introduces post-quantum key exchange algorithms for better security. ([Flatcar#1921](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/1921)). Users requiring legacy Ciphers, MACs, and/or KexAlgos can override / re-enable this by deploying a custom drop-in config  to `/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/`.

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/misc-files/files/openssh/50-flatcar-sshd.conf

@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ PrintLastLog no
 PrintMotd no
 # END SETTINGS KEPT FOR COMPATIBILITY
 
-Ciphers [email protected],aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,[email protected],[email protected]
-MACs [email protected],[email protected],hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,[email protected],[email protected]
-KexAlgorithms curve25519-sha256,[email protected],ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256
-
 # Temporarily accept ssh-rsa algorithm for openssh >= 8.8,
 # until most ssh clients could deprecate ssh-rsa.
 HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa