A mis-specification of the OpenSSH key format?

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Fri May 21 07:55:55 AEST 2021


On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 12:42:47PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> yeah, the private keys should be inserted as byte[] rather than string.
> 
> I just fixed this in https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/24fee8

This is quite similar to
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2390 from a few years ago,
but my patch in that bug includes a few further fixes that I think you
missed in that commit (e.g. you left "privatekeyN" unchanged, and I
included a few more type clarifications).

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]


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