ssh checksum error

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

"Peter R. Wood" <lists at prwdot.org> writes:

> Another error I get is:
> 
> Message Authentication Code did not verify (packet #21825). Data integrity
> has been compromised.

I used to get that one all the time. I don't remember the details now, but
I think it was a bug in an older version of the F-Secure ssh server 
software.
After I upgraded the affected servers to openssh, the problem never 
recurred.
I suspect it had something to do with the current session key expiring and 
a subtle bug in the exchange of the next session key.

I imagine that upgrading to a more recent F-Secure version would probably 
have fixed it as well.


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