openssh 3.9p1 problems on big-endian ARM platform

[Dan Yefimov]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with openssh 3.9p1 on a big-endian ARM platform.
> Everything appears to build and run okay, but I can only shell to the box
> itself or to other big-endian ARM boxes.  Shelling to an x86 box gives me:
> 
> 	Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.
> 
> and shelling from an x86 to the ARM gives me the same message.
> 
> What's odd is that the RSA fingerprints are reported differently if I'm
> shelling from the x86 or from the ARM.  From the ARM I get:
> 
> 	[buytenh at enp2611 ~]$ ssh localhost
> 	The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
> 	RSA key fingerprint is 09:ee:a8:21:21:dc:82:bd:3a:49:1d:25:a3:c4:ad:eb.
> 	Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> 
> >From the x86 I get:
> 
> 	pi% ssh enp2611
> 	The authenticity of host 'enp2611 (10.0.0.31)' can't be established.
> 	RSA key fingerprint is 36:01:dc:80:71:5f:12:cd:26:ec:4d:31:bb:82:5e:01.
> 	Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> 
> Any ideas where to look first?  Most ARM boxes are little-endian, so I
> thought that maybe openssh was assuming that arm is always little-endian,
> like many other packages do, but that doesn't seem to be it.
> 
I'm afraid you have problems with openssl that is used internally by openssh. 
Try upgrading to the latest openssl release. If that doesn't help, try 
recompiling it with platform-specific optimisations turned off. Of course, your 
compiler must be able to generate correct code for your particular platform.
-- 

    Sincerely Your, Dan.