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Re: SSH key exchange in mid-session


On Tuesday 01 May 2012 12:32:24 Aviv Zilberman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to start using with libssh in order to achieve SSH communication.
> The problem is that the target SSH server (not SFTP server in my case) is
> also configuring to drop the session after 1G or 1 hour. I notice the
> following limitation of libssh in below link and I have 2 questions :
> http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2012-04/0000001.html
> 
> 1)      As far as I understood from the RFC only the symmetric session key
> itself supposed to be exchange - no need to repeat the initialize handshake
> include asymmetric keys.

Well the RFC is always right. If openssh has an extension to that we need to 
check if we talk to openssh and then go into openssh mode.


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