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2004 Nov 27
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buffer_get_bignum2: negative numbers not supported
...martcard support to PuTTY and this worked fine
until yesterday when we replaced one of our Slackware-9 machines
by a Slackware-10 one.
Slackware-9 contained OpenSSH 3.5p1 while Slackware-10 has
OpenSSH 3.8.1p1.
Now the same keys that worked before do not work anymore and
OpenSSH fails with
buffer_get_bignum2: negative numbers not supported
I first supected that my smartcard-modification were the reason
and I double-checked the way I deliver the smartcards public
key to PuTTY. Maybe I forgot to prepend a 0x00 byte to a
modulus starting with 0x80. But I did not.
Here's the relevant output from sshd...