Hi Oren, I'd VERY MUCH appreciate if you could send me a unified patch file for openssh with fips. In the meanwhile I'll try to work with the ones you posted. BTW, I'm CentOS-5.1 based. My native openssh is 4.3p2. Do you think your patch may be valid for that baseline as well? Could you make one? I know this is a lot to ask for. Are there any other alternatives? Many thanks, - Arie