How to enable OpenSSH session key regeneration?

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Issue

  • We would like to configure OpenSSH to regenerate the session encryption key in order to make it harder to break.
  • sshd KeyRegenerationInterval query
  • in our installation it is set to Zero most likely after the incident Red Hat recommendation. do we need this setting for ssh2 sessions, what does 0 means, why not the default value of 3600? this is in sshd_config

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • OpenSSH

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