On Mon, 4 May 2009, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
> The real key, which is much longer, is the key that gets stored in
> known_hosts. libssh2 doesn't currently provide a way to get at it which
> means that all libssh2-based clients have to fall back to storing and
> comparing the hashes. I don't think that this has any real security
> implications but it rules out using keys stored by other clients in
> known_hosts or by PuTTY in the registry.
Thanks, then I need to add such a function that can export the full key. In my
initial take I'll focus on OpenSSH complience, but I figure it could be useful
to see what it takes to support putty's file format too. Anyone knows any
details?
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