Re: SSH key exchange in mid-session

[Aris Adamantiadis <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm probably a few months too late, but I've pushed a patch on master
that implements key re-exchange and should fix your problem.
It was not trivial at all !

(please comment on the bug issue if you have an account)
https://red.libssh.org/issues/16

Aris

Le 1/05/12 14:32, Aviv Zilberman a écrit :
> *Hello, *
> 
> * *
> 
> *I want to start using with libssh in order to achieve SSH communication.*
> 
> *The problem is that the target SSH server (not SFTP server in my case)
> is also configuring to drop the session after 1G or 1 hour.*
> 
> *I notice the following limitation of libssh in below link and I have 2
> questions :*
> 
> *http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2012-04/0000001.html*
> 
> *1)      **As far as I understood from the RFC only the _symmetric_
> session key itself supposed to be exchange – no need to repeat the
> initialize handshake include _asymmetric_ keys.*
> 
> *I am right ? is it done automatically ? I think openssh support it so
> why libssh not ?*
> 
> *2)      **Assuming I would like to support it anyway. Is there a way to
> do so using libssh ? if so, what it is ?*
> 
> * *
> 
> *Thanks in advance,*
> 
> *Aviv      Zilberman.*
> 
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