[PATCH] Caching passphrase in ssh-add.

Markus Friedl Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Jan 9 21:41:09 EST 2001


On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:55:33PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > http://bass.directhit.com/openssh_snap supports RSA in V2 (but
> > you need to generate a special RSA keys for v2).
> 
> Will those keys then be compatible with V1-only clients? Otherwise the
> point is sort of lost :)

why. V1-only clients speak V1 only. so what should be compatible?
RSA keys in SSH2 are different in openssh, since they are used
for different purposes. you might prefer to use RSA instead of DSA in ssh2
since RSA is simpler and does not consume as much random ness as the
DSA sign process.

-markus





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