X.509 for verifying host keys

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:07:07AM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Anyone actually working on this privately, email me.
> 
> I'm honestly thinking of just supporting PEM files outright, though not
> abandoning the perfect forward secrecy of SSH.

Are you doing this merely to deal with known_host maintenance (i.e., to
avoid it altogether)?

Or do you want to do X.509 pubkey userauth as well?

In the latter case you'll definitely need to support CA hierarchies and
you'll need a way to do name-based authorization. Oh, gee, look at that,
I just posted a patch which adds the necessary infrastructure for
name-based authorization and enables it for Kerberos. :)

> --Dan
> 

Cheers,

Nico
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