ssh-keygen -K option

Ángel González keisial at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 01:31:33 EST 2011


On 10/12/11 13:18, Christophe Garault wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>     I'm in the process of generating a moduli file under Linux
> with 5.9p1 version which in fact takes quite some time for
> the big primes to be tested.
>
>     So I've checked both portable and current source code but am
> unable to
> find the -K option wich is documented in the man page of OpenBSD site.
> This option is supposed to add a checkpoint file when screening the
> candidates with -T option which would be very helpful in my case.
>
>     Can someone give me a hint as of when this was added and where do I
> get some patch for this option ? I've quickly checked this list and the
> Changelog but can't figure when this option was added.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Christophe Garault

It was added in October, so it's not yet on any release.
http://anoncvs.mindrot.org/index.cgi/openssh/ssh-keygen.1?r1=1.103&r2=1.104
http://anoncvs.mindrot.org/index.cgi/openssh/ssh-keygen.c?r1=1.228&r2=1.229

You can try build ssh-keygen from a nightly snapshot:
http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/



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