Subject: RE: Key regeneration failure (serverside demand)

RE: Key regeneration failure (serverside demand)

From: Mikael Johansson <bildrullen_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:12:39 +0200

Thanks for quick reply.

I haven't seen any configuration parameters in openssh (the KeyRegenerationInterval parameter seems to concern SSH1 only) so I made a query to the openssh mailing list.

> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:42:21 +0200
> From: daniel_at_haxx.se
> To: libssh2-devel_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Key regeneration failure (serverside demand)
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Mikael Johansson wrote:
>
> > After 1 GB of uploaded data, the server tries to reexchange keys. My
> > application ignores it and continues sending data. The server closes the
> > connection. I think the problem lies in the libSSH2 not taking care of the
> > key exchange. Tests with the libSSH2's sample program scp_write_nonblock.c
> > shows the same result.
> >
> > Is there a way to configure libSSH2 to perform this reexchanging of keys
> > automatically?
>
> I figure it should do that already. This sounds like a genuine bug.
>
> Is there any decent way we can repeat this problem using just openssh as
> server?
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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