Re: Putty and pkd

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 March 2014 18:07:34 you wrote:
> Hey Andreas,
> 
> On 3/27/14, 3:46 AM, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > have you ever tested putty against pkd?
> 
> Ah yes -- I've used pkd here:
> 
>     https://github.com/simonsj/pkd
> 
> for reproducing bugs and verifying fixes for a few issues across each
> of OpenSSH, PuTTY, and more recently Dropbear clients.
> 
> It's been helpful for me to do isolated testing for the client and host
> key signature verification paths.  I've used it to reproduce and verify
> a few things:
> 
>  * PuTTY RSA signature padding quirk
>    http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2014-01/0000046.html
> 
>  * DSA signature extraction case
>    https://red.libssh.org/issues/144
> 
>  * Alan's ECDSA host keys enablement patch series
>    http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2014-02/0000083.html
> 
>  * Fix for 'first_kex_packet_follows' issue affecting modern dropbear
> clients http://www.libssh.org/archive/libssh/2014-03/0000044.html

Awesome, thanks for all the testing and fixes!
 
> I've updated the README today to include instructions for testing with
> both PuTTY and Dropbear clients.  It would be nice to port over the
> testing code to be included with the libssh testing proper, but I've
> yet taken the time to do so :).

I will try to find time to integrate cwrap next week. Then it should be much 
easier to do correct testing.



	-- andreas