I use the following command to check the fingerprint of my rsa host key of my linux box at my office.
The results is a sixteen groups of hexadecimal numbers separated by ":", like the following (example only, not true)
Later on I went back home and use my Windows XP (installed with SSH Secure Shell) to connect to my linux box at my office for the first time. It then asked me whether to store the host key with a fingerprint .......

However, that fingerprint is an eleven 5-character sequence separated by hyphen. For example, like the following (just an example, not true):
They are different! Even a blind man can tell this! But I expect them to be the same! Can any one tell me what's going on? And how can I verify that the fingerprint I received on the home machine (MS Windows) is the same as that on the remote host (linux box at my office)?

Windows is different.
Windows doesn't always do things properly.
I just use linux, so I know what is going on.
Perhaps you should ask this question in a windows forum?

This is a ridiculous response.

Which SSH client were you using on Windows? Which version of SSH does it support?

Mr. C, you are correct.
You have been helpful to me in the past (and received my thanks), so over to you now

Don't get me wrong - 90% of the time I too want to bark at Windows, and often don't bite my tongue when I should have, so I hear where you're coming from! No harm. :-)

Off topic:
Thanks Mr.C, I think I'm grumpy right now. Apologies.
If I cannot be helpful, then it's time to logout.

My ssh client used in Window XP machine is:

I don't know SSH Corporation's products well (is that version old?):

The 5 x 11 char string is SSH Corporation's default Babble format. See:

http://www.ssh.com/support/documenta...eygen-examples
http://www.ssh.com/support/documenta...-keyfetch.html

Thank you! I now at least have some ideas what's going on.