7 Mikrotik RouterOS

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Table of Contents

• RouterOS >= 7.7
• RouterOS <= 7.6
• Limitations
• Additional information
• Validated versions

RouterOS (sometimes shortened to ROS) is an embedded operating system used on various appliances from Mikrotik. Depending on the version of RouterOS, not all commands may be available, and if major differences are known, they are combined in a version-specific section.

SSH into an appliance or virtual machine running RouterOS, or in case of a physical device use a local serial connection in order to apply these options.

RouterOS >= 7.7

RouterOS 7.7 was the first release supporting ed25519 host keys.

/ip ssh set host-key-size=4096 host-key-type=ed25519 strong-crypto=yes
/ip/ssh/regenerate-host-key

References

• mikrotik.com: All current and historical changelogs:

What's new in 7.7 (2023-Jan-12 09:35): 

[...]

*) ssh - added support for Ed25519 key exchange;

RouterOS <= 7.6

/ip ssh set host-key-size=4096 strong-crypto=yes
/ip/ssh/regenerate-host-key

Limitations

In most versions of RouterOS the options available don't permit reaching a perfect score, here are some of the reasons:

• Host-key algorithms: Not (yet) adjustable.
• Key exchange algorithms: Offers only limited adjustability (strong-crypto=yes)
• Message authentication codes: Not (yet) adjustable.

Additional information

• Mikrotik RouterOS documentation: Pages > RouterOS > Management tools > SSH

Validated versions

RouterOS	ssh-audit
7.11.2	master @ 02ab487232de438c0811116f2676cb1c9b5f3d62
7.3.1	master @ 02ab487232de438c0811116f2676cb1c9b5f3d62
6.49.10	master @ 02ab487232de438c0811116f2676cb1c9b5f3d62

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