PuTTY: Server key initialization problem.

From: Charles Wilcox (willo_at_wpi.edu)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:51:21 -0500

I get this error when I try to use PuTTY to SSH to my server:

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PuTTY Fatal Error
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Server's host key did not match the signature supplied
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OK
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PuTTY will connect fine to other machines, and used to connect fine to
this server. What I changed was the RSA&DSA keys; I increased their bit
size to around 2048. Before, they were 1280 bits long.

OpenSSH clients can connect fine to this server.

Has anyone heard of this problem before? I figured I'd ask here before I
go though the trouble to asking the PuTTY developers.

 -- Charles Wilcox

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