SSH v3 specs?

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Mon Jan 6 20:49:57 EST 2003


On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:41:02PM -0600, sshdev at rednu.com wrote:
> Has any thought toward a v3 protocol spec been discussed 
> elsewhere, and if so what enhancements are being looked 
> at.  Is it too early to consider such things, or should we 
> open the door to the new features a protocol update would 
> bring?

where is ssh v3 beeing discussed?

> 
> More specifically I have been investigating working toward 
> a more enterprise-friendly hierichical authentication 
> scheme, but I have quickly realized the magnitude of such 
> a change.  I have worked with LDAP/PAM, but there are 
> parts of ssh that are not very interoperable with LDAP, 
> such as pub/priv keypairs.  These can be stored in a 
> directory, but it is quite a kludge to do so at this 
> point.

storing the private keys in LDAP makes no sense,
but why is storing the public keys a problem?



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