[Bug 3253] ssh-keygen man page still lists deprecated key types for -t

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Fri Jan 22 15:10:11 AEDT 2021


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3253

Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
(In reply to Darren Tucker from comment #1)
[...]
> Unfortunately that keyword is pretty misleading.  It specifies
> *algorithms* not *key types*.  (In its defense, the lists were
> equivalent when the keyword was added, they diverged later).  We
> should consider changing its name.

We've renamed PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes to PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms which
will hopefully reduce potential confusion in future.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/ee9c0da8035b3168e8e57c1dedc2d1b0daf00eec

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