keys generated on one architecture for another?

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sat Aug 12 14:56:50 WST 2006


On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:27:15AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> / # /bin/dropbear -F -v
> TRACE: enter loadhostkeys
> [1154] Jan 01 00:30:22 premature exit: bad buf_incrwritepos: BUF_MAX_INCR
> TRACE: enter session_cleanup
> TRACE: leave session_cleanup: !sessinitdone
> 
> I've modified the source to tell me which if condition is failing.... 
> And it is the max increment, which is defined to be a very large number....
> 
> So are the keys architecture specific?  Am I running into some integer 
> length or *-endian issues here?
> 
> Can you pre-build keys on an x86 for arm?

They keys should work fine between platforms. Could you send
a sample key generated on each platform?

Cheers,
Matt


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