Re: fatal: cipher_init: EVP_CipherInit: set key failed for aes128-cbc

On 7/30/2013 8:01 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> Am I the only person to be seeing this log message from sshd:
> 
> fatal: cipher_init: EVP_CipherInit: set key failed for aes128-cbc [preauth]

> nice not to have my logs spammed with this.  Currently running
> openssh-portable-6.2.p2_3,1, and I think it started with upgrade to
> 6.2.


There is an open PR which can be closed now at

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=171809

which points to


http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-May/047921.html

Change the default in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to

UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

as it sounds like you have hardware crypto on the box and you are using
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox
which is broken

	---Mike



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