Re: Interop lsh and SSH-2.0-GitLab-SSHD

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>]

Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes:

>So it's not just modulus size, but I'm wondering if the gitlab code is stupid
>enough to consider any exponent over 65537 as an error or some such.

My guess is it considers any exponent larger than a machine word (which makes
ops with it quite efficient) as irrational and therefore rejects it.  My code
does this too - there's no sane reason for having an exponent like that apart
from opening yourself up to DoS attacks.

Peter.