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<p>On 2022-11-11 11:50 am, Rogan Dawes wrote:</p>
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<div dir="auto">I was under the impression that the ssh protocol included a handshake step where supported algorithms were exchanged, and keys that do not match are eliminated?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">For public key auth the client sends each public key it has to offer, the server sends a "key OK" message if it's accepted, and then the client sends its signature. So Dropbear on openwrt gets the ecdsa key offer and sends a failure response since it doesn't accept that ecdsa key type.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Matt</div>
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