On Wed  4-Mar-2020  7:01p, Ron Lauzon@1:275/89.0 said to Caco Byte:


RL>  CB> Hello everybody! I'm having a little trouble connecting to some of my
RL>  CB> favourite BBS using SSH in Syncterm 1.1b.
RL>  CB> I doesn't apply to every BBS I try to connect but in many cases I
RL> have
RL>  CB> this strange error message afterwards:

What version of Syncterm are you using? I may be using a older version and my SSH is working fine here.


RL> I haven't seen that when I use SyncTerm, but I only use Telnet.

RL> The error has to do with trying to set up the SSH connection.

RL> "ECDH" is "Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman" and it's a method for 2 systems
RL> to
RL> exchange a key without transmitting the key in the clear.  So that's why
RL> you
RL> only see it with ssh.  Telnet isn't encrypted.  Ssh is.

That is why I switched to using SSH. Some of the issues that only happens when I am using Syncterm is it will loose the mouse pointer and the login macro stop working. The only to fix it the issue is to restart Syncterm.
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