Java, JCE and OpenSSH

[Manik Surtani]

Hello, all.

Firstly, sorry for the cross-posting...

Has anyone out there tried to use JCE (1.2.1, with JDK1.3.1) to create a 
Diffie Hellman key using the group1 prime modulus and base generator, 
and then pass on the public key to an OpenSSH (v3.1) server as a part of 
the diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange?

For some reason, the ssh server rejects the key saying it is invalid ...

I have successfully MANUALLY implemented this (by using the prime 
modulus p, the base generator g, and a large random number r, using the 
DH algorithm specified in the SSH 2.0 IETF paper), and the public key I 
generate here is accepted by the SSH server.  Why is it then, that the 
JCE implementation of the DH keygen algorithm, produces keys that are 
not accepted?

Has anyone else experienced this?  Am I doing something stupid?

Help is much appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
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