Re: Transport I-D: KEXINIT reserved field needs description

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost> writes:

>>>OpenSSH will accept non-zero values for the reserved uint32 value, but will
>>>not allow more data after this field.
>>
>>Same for cryptlib.
>
>What's the detailed behavior?  suddenly drop the connection?  drop the
>connection after sending an error packet?

Send a handshake-failed indication and drop the connection.

Peter.