Key exchange failed

Andersson, Mats mats.andersson@appgate.com
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:11:03 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Oliver Tseng wrote:
> I'm using Mindterm 2.2 and trying to connect to an openssh server, 
> but I get the following error:
> 
> Error connecting to zeus, reason: -> Key exchange failed: Unknown kex
> algorithm: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
> 
> What's up?

Sounds strange? The name of the kex algorithm seems right and should be
available (since it's the only standard algorithm :-). Have you compiled 
the sources yourself? If so you must not obfuscate the KEX algorithms 
(also they must of course be included in the jar).

Cheers,

/Mats