Defaults for protocol and ssh-keygen (and an introduction)

[Matthew Vernon]

Markus Friedl <Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:55:18PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > Anyhow, onto the first question. ssh these days uses protocol version
> > 2 by default, but ssh-keygen stil generates old-style keys by
> > default. Is this apparant contradiction intentional?
> 
> no, this is a default that should not be changed now.
> 
> this will break to many things, i think. perhaps later.

Hrm. I'm not convinced. It's a little counter-intuitive that
ssh-keygen will create you a useless .identify by default...

Matthew

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