Subject: Re: known_hosts support (first take)

Re: known_hosts support (first take)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:38:44 +0200 (CEST)

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?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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