Ludovic Court�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am new to OpenSSL and I am currently trying to use it to make a simple sort of
> `rexec' program. I first started with the examples taken from
> http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples .
> 
> Actually, the problem I am facing is that my program (which is almost the same
> as the one above) just hangs when calling SSL_connect() (SSL_connect() doesn't
> perform the connection and just doesn't return). When I interrupt the program,
> sshd says:
> sshd[199302]: Did not receive identification string from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> (i am using OpenSSH).
This is pretty confusing. Are you trying to connect to an OpenSSH
server with SSL? That won't work.

> Also, I do not manage to load my OpenSSH private key using
> SSL_CTX_use_[RSA]PrivateKey_file(), which are not documented, at least not in
> the man pages available on openssl.org.
There's no real reason to expect this to work. OpenSSH uses a different
keyfile format from OpenSSL.

-Ekr




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