Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: fingerprint warning w
From:    Andy Alt
Date:    Mon Aug 03, 2026 08:48

Subject: Re: fingerprint warning when switching syncterm versions
Subject: Re: fingerprint warning when switching syncterm versions

-=> Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-

 DM>   Re: fingerprint warning when switching syncterm versions
 DM>   By: Andy Altto All on Fri Jul 31 2026 03:25 am

 > When I test syncterm using the latest git build and connect to a BBS I
 > previously connected to with ssh in syncterm 1.8, I get a message that the
 > fingerprint has changed. The message doesn't appear when i switch back to
 > 1.8. Is that somehow expected behavior? The host key hasn't actually
 > changed, so is synterm reading it differently?

 DM> The author may not see your question, so maybe ask on irc.synchro.net
 DM> #synchronet or post on https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/ --
 DM>                                             digital man (rob)

Ok. Ticket opened.

https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/275/

I'm all good now. Deuce answered:

SyncTERM < 1.10 stored an incorrect fingerprint... it waseffectively an MD5 in

a SHA-1 sized value. I expect SyncTERM to autodetect this and silently update
it when 1.10a is being ran. However, once 1.10a updates it, it won't match on
older versions, which should be the ones indicating a mismatch (since they
don't properly support the updated fingerprint).

Switching back and forth between versions is not supported, and may result in
various odd effects. Only moving from older to newer versions is supported.

--
-Andy
Website: https://andy5995.github.io


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