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SSH publickey authentication implemented

I have hacked on our SSH gateway today to add publickey authentication support. By the way I may not have explained this before, so a short introduction is due: Zorp is an application layer gateway with support for 21 protocols, among them an SSH gateway capable of looking into the encrypted SSH stream and restricting the protocol to a subset that you really want to allow to your users. (e.g. you can forbid TCP port forwarding while still allowing terminal access).

The problem with publickey authentication is that the signature covers the so called SSH session_id which is a unique value derived during key exchange. My proxy implements a man-in-the-middle, so the client<->proxy and proxy<->server connections have a different session id, thus simply replaying the authentication packets of the client will not work since the SSH session ids do not match.

The solution is that we are going to replace user keys transparently when crossing the firewall, which means that private keys need to be stored there. This is both a feature and a drawback: a feature since you can control which keys you are allowing to leave your perimeter and a drawback as this requires additional management tasks. It would have been so much nicer if we could do this transparently, but I am afraid this is not possible unless we modify all clients out there or alternatively we manage to find a way to crack the Diffie-Hellmann key exchange algorithm.

On the syslog-ng side I have committed a fix to make files over 2GB work again. It should be available in the next snapshot shortly. I'm also thinking about preparing 1.9.10 with the fixes accumulated so far.

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