JSchException: Algorithm negotiation fail

Question

I am trying to connect to remote sftp server over ssh with JSch (0.1.44-1) but during \"session.connect();\" I am getting this exception:

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Answer 1

add KexAlgorithms diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha‌​1 to your sshd_config on the server.

This worked, but make sure you restart sshd: sudo service sshd restart