Re: [PATCH] Fix ability to use ECDSA host keys

[Dustin Oprea <myselfasunder@xxxxxxxxx>]

The host-keys and authentication now work, in your environment?

Dustin
On Feb 15, 2014 2:17 PM, "Alan Dunn" <amdunn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> After our previous discussion on the inability to enable ECDSA keys, I
> found some bugs in how they are actually used in libssh (even if one
> were able to enable them).  With these changes, and some version of
> changes to allow ECDSA host keys to be enabled (I used my prior patch
> for testing and added an option to samplesshd), I was able to
> successfully get examples sample and samplesshd to communicate, as
> well as an OpenSSH client and samplesshd.
>
> There were two issues:
> - ecdsa_nid was not copied to duplicated ECDSA private keys
> - SHA-2 hashing was not used for sessionid generation for ECDSA keys
> (instead SHA-1 was being used)
>
> Thanks,
> - Alan
>