ssh-keygen problem with openssh-4* and openssl-0.9.7g on AIX

Andy Polyakov appro at fy.chalmers.se
Thu Jul 14 05:09:38 EST 2005


> i got a strange error for openssh-4.0p1 and openssh-4.1p1
> (didn't try other versions) with openssl-0.9.7g on AIX 5.1
> 
> openssl-0.9.7g and openssh build without errors,
> "make test" for openssl returns no errors,
> "make test" for openssh stops at the first connection test
> 
> "make test" for openssh with openssl-0.9.6m returns no errors
> (i don't get errors for openssh with openssl-0.9.7g on Linux)
> 
> i found the following problem:
> 
> ssh-keygen creates a corrupt public key for rsa1
> ("keygen -t rsa1" and "keygen -yf testkey")
> the public key starts with a sequence of 0 and
> has only a few digits at the end
> keygen -l returns key lengths between 80 and 128
> for diffent keygen runs
> the corrupt key isn't accepted in authorized_keys
> (while the correct pub key from another system is)

This is caused by a bug in PPC assembler code, which was fixed recently 
(see http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=14200). A.




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