Help with exporting keys

[Krishnakumar B]

Hi,

In our department's setup we have a unfortunate situation where we have to
use both OpenSSH and SSH (ssh.com's version). I have managed to export keys
from OpenSSH to SSH's format. I also managed to export SSH's public key to
OpenSSH's format. Now I would like to add the private key of SSH to the
agent. Now when I try to add it simply by using

  ssh-add ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a

I get a bad passphrase error. I thought that this was because OpenSSH
couldn't grok the private key generated by SSH. When I tried exporting
SSH's private key as follows:

With SSH version 2.0.12 and OpenSSH_2.9p2
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samba> ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a
uudecode failed.


With SSH version 2.4.0 and OpenSSH_2.9p2
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samba> ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_b
unsupported cipher 3des-cbc
decode blob failed.

Anybody know why this export is failing ? Any workarounds for this ? I am
generating the SSH keys on Solaris and Tru64. I am trying the export with
OpenSSH on Linux/i686.

-kitty.

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Krishnakumar B <kitty at cs dot wustl dot edu>
Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Washington University in St.Louis