ssh 3.1p1 problems on SX-6...

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Manish Kumar Srivastava, Noida wrote:

[..]
> But we had a break thru today when we tried different versions
> of openssl at our side with openssh-3.1p1
>
> openssl-0.9.6b - aes128-cbc fails (Bad Packet length problem)
> openssl-0.9.6h - aes128-cbc fails (Bad packet length problem)
> openssl-0.9.7  - PASSES (no bad packet length problem)
>
> In the openssl-0.9.7 changelog, it was written that the crypto/rijndael
> is moved to crypto/aes but we couldn't find the implementation of
> rijndael in openssl-0.9.6[bh]. I think this may not be the appropriate
> place to ask a question about openssl, still...
>

Markus already answered this.  0.9.6 did not have AES.  It was implemented
within OpenSSH tree.  When 0.9.7 betas came out we moved to a new way of
supporting the OpenSSL API.  As a result we have seen a few cases where
aes has failed, but it is not consistant over every platform.

- Ben