--- a/mercurial/configitems.py	Sat Oct 14 00:16:12 2017 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py	Sat Oct 14 00:28:13 2017 +0200
@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@
 coreconfigitem('hostsecurity', 'minimumprotocol',
     default=dynamicdefault,
 )
+coreconfigitem('hostsecurity', '.*:minimumprotocol$',
+    default=dynamicdefault,
+    generic=True,
+)
 coreconfigitem('http_proxy', 'always',
     default=False,
 )