ssh compatibility question

[Jameel Akari]

Short answer: Upgrade the SSH on the Tru64 box first.  The FreeBSD and OSX 
included OpenSSH installs are far more up to date and correct.

Long answer: Certain older commercial SSH releases had off-by-N bugs in 
the way that key lengths are calculated.  One I still see on some systems 
is with 1024-bit RSA keys (which many report at 1023 in length, and the 
client complains.

OpenSSH does work on Tru64 (using it right now to type this) and will 
compile with the ccc compiler just fine, and may be available on the 
"Internet Solutions" CDROM (though I haven't looked at those in a while. 
This isn't officially supported by DigiHewPaq, which may or may not matter 
to you.

You may want to force SSHv1 mode with -1 on the FreeBSD machine as well 
and see if that works - might be a difference in the default ssh_config 
between it and OSX, or it might be that the v1/v2 negotition blows up.

>    Will "Mac hmac-md5" fix that problem?

It may, but only if the keysize bug isn't also common to the md5 part of 
the program.


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