Solaris 8 x86 rsa pubkey auth problem

[Darren Tucker]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:48:57AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> If ssh didn't read the public key in (2) the user would have to enter
> the passphrase for any and all private keys available to ssh, not
> just the one that would be used for actually authenticating the user.

It's faster, too.

Without it, you would also have to perform a sign (on the client) and
verify (on the server) which is relatively expensive.  The "will you
accept the key with this fingerprint?" operation is a lot cheaper than
sign+verify (remember, the client might try a number of keys).

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