MD5 and SCP/SFTP

[Ian McKerracher_1]

Hello Bart,

It's only a wild guess but could there be a difference between the authentication algorithms? Is one system set to HMAC-MD5 and the other system set to HMAC-MD5-96 for example?


Regards,

Ian

[Bart Buitenhuis_1]

That wouldn't explain the succesful checksum during normal Binairy FTP transfer would it?

[Bojan Nemec · Accepted solution]

Bart,

Yes, if you transfer the file binary, the contents are transfered as is. But such a file may not be usable on the HPUX side. If the file is of format variable length which is the VMS default each record begins with two bytes with the record length (little endian). This makes no sense on UNIX systems.

Bojan

[Bart Buitenhuis_1]

Bojan; my response above was about the MD5 algorithm I use.

But your idea about the Stream_LF is working!! I only wonder, as I stated earlier, if I can savely convert all files that have to be sent to this format> We are still testing this method and haven't sent any application-data this way.

But you've earned your points ;-)

Thanks again
Bart