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PuTTY Kex Error, or: "Hm, kex protocol error: type 30 seq 1 [preauth]"

I host IRC shells (user accounts with SSH access for IRC usage) for several of my friends. Some of them that run inferior OSes use PuTTY to connect. Last week, I got word that one of them was unable to connect to my server, getting no error on their end (just seemed to never connect).

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