How do hosts negotiate data compression in SSH?

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DVoropaev2019-02-27 18:25:58

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DVoropaev, 2019-02-27 18:25:58

RFC-4253 (description of the transport layer of the SSH protocol) states that the protocol supports data compression. There are two compression options: none (no compression) and zlib (zlib algorithm)
But nowhere is it described how the hosts agree.

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ky0, 2019-02-27
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https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-...