> Sorry I regretted using these exact words. > > What I meant to say was that this does not explain everything. > > Let me leave it at that. > > If I don't understand something most likely my understanding is to take the > blame. :-) > > All is well that ends well. > > Thanks to Damien and Darren for clearing certain things. > > And to you of course for letting the list know this.
Ok in order to bring things to a certain logical conclusion I will get a little bit of context to all this. I have been having problems with my md5 and sha1 checksums not matching. I mean the shell commands. And also scp transfers used to abort with a "Corrupted MAC on input" error. All these problems on my FreeBSD 6.0 box. Then someone else in China had a problem connecting to his FreeBSD box in San Diego. So I was investigating that and found that the kex protocol of ssh was not completing. It was crapping out at different places at different times. And I could only go so far as DH params. Well I am not a math guru. :-) However once the FreeBSD OpenSSL was reinstalled all these problems disappeared magically. You can clearly see what I am getting at. That OpenSSL is the root cause for all this. That is why I tried to correlate what you were saying with this. But now it is apparent that this problem and my problem don't exactly coincide. My apologies to OpenBSD devs and in particular Darren and Damien if I sounded rude. Hope this clears things up a bit. regards, Girish
