‘The first cipher supported by the server is ... below the configured warning threshold’

PuTTY

10.4 ‘The first cipher supported by the server is ... below the configured warning threshold’

This occurs when the SSH server does not offer any ciphers which you have configured PuTTY to consider strong enough. By default, PuTTY puts up this warning only for single-DES and Arcfour encryption.

See section 4.21 for more information on this message.