Problem connecting to v2.9.9p2 on Solaris 8

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Wed Nov 28 03:22:14 EST 2001


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:11:22AM -0500, Ed Phillips wrote:
> > As of 0.51 it supports both RSA and DSA.. Which is kinda funny since the
> > author originally railed against DSA and shouted at the top of his lungs
> > that he would never support DSA due to the fact it sucks up too my entropy
> > to be reliable.
> 
> That's strange... I'm using Putty 0.51.  It doesn't seem to support RSA
> for SSHV2 connections I guess.  Maybe it's in the "latest development
> release" version...

Do you have an RSA v2 key at all?
Do you have Pageant running and didn't load your v2 key, per-chance?
Do you have RSA v2 hostkeys on the servers?

> Thanks Ben and Markus!  For now, I've generated a DSA key on the server
> side so that Putty can connect.
> 
> 	Ed


Nico
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