RFC: encrypted hostkeys patch

Markus Friedl mfriedl at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 04:57:59 EST 2013


nice! I might have a look at this next week.


Am 26.06.2013 um 05:18 schrieb Zev Weiss <zev at bewilderbeest.net>:

> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 09:29:19PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Zev Weiss wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> About a year and a half ago I brought up the topic of encrypted hostkeys
>>> and posted a patch
>>> (http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=132774431906364&w=2), and while the
>>> general reaction seemed receptive to the idea, a few problems were pointed
>>> out with the implementation (UI issues, ssh-keysign breakage).
>>> 
>>> I've finally had some spare time in which to get back to this, and I've
>>> written a new patch which has the daemon talking to an ssh-agent for
>>> private key operations, as suggested in the previous conversation -- the
>>> current version of the patch can be found below.
>> 
>> Wow - thanks! This was on my list of things to do and I'm very glad
>> that you beat me to it.
>> 
>> Could I ask you to create a bug at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ and
>> attach your patch and the below comments there so we can track and review
>> them?
>> 
> 
> Sure -- I've resurrected the existing bugzilla entry from my earlier
> attempt: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1974
> 
> (I'll add further stuff there, unless an entirely new entry is actually
> preferable.)
> 
> Zev
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