openssh can only handle _unencrypted_ private keys from ssh.com
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:32:25PM -0500, Krishnakumar B
wrote:> Hi,
>
> In our department's setup we have a unfortunate situation where we have
to
> use both OpenSSH and SSH (ssh.com's version). I have managed to export
keys
> from OpenSSH to SSH's format. I also managed to export SSH's public
key to
> OpenSSH's format. Now I would like to add the private key of SSH to the
> agent. Now when I try to add it simply by using
>
> ssh-add ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a
>
> I get a bad passphrase error. I thought that this was because OpenSSH
> couldn't grok the private key generated by SSH. When I tried exporting
> SSH's private key as follows:
>
> With SSH version 2.0.12 and OpenSSH_2.9p2
> -----------------------------------------
>
> samba> ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a
> uudecode failed.
>
>
> With SSH version 2.4.0 and OpenSSH_2.9p2
> ----------------------------------------
>
> samba> ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_b
> unsupported cipher 3des-cbc
> decode blob failed.
>
> Anybody know why this export is failing ? Any workarounds for this ? I am
> generating the SSH keys on Solaris and Tru64. I am trying the export with
> OpenSSH on Linux/i686.
>
> -kitty.
>
> --
> Krishnakumar B <kitty at cs dot wustl dot edu>
> Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Washington University in St.Louis