> I've begun writing a simple implementation of the SSH v2 protocol.
> I'm looking at the SSH-TRANS speicification document, and I'm confused by
> an ambiguity on page 12.
>
> It says that the client sends 'e' and the server replies with 'f', where e
> and f are the Diffie Hellman exchange values. It does NOT specify how
> these values are to be encoded. Should I expect that they are X.509
> encoded? Or are they actually transmitted plain?
If you look down at the bottom of page 13 and the top of 14 you
will find a more detailed description of the packets exchanged
during Diffie Hellman. ('e' and 'f' are encoded as mpints...
see draft-ietf-secsh-architecture-04.txt for a description of
mpint.)
- Joseph
