Matthew Vernon
2001-Jul-21 11:55 UTC
Defaults for protocol and ssh-keygen (and an introduction)
Hi, I have recently taken over as Debian maintainer for ssh. This means you're going to be getting lots of mail from me in the near future :-) I'm aiming to be a little more active than the last maintainer, but the Debian packages were really out of date, so I've quite a lot of work (and probably some old bugs) to deal with. Anyhow, onto the first question. ssh these days uses protocol version 2 by default, but ssh-keygen stil generates old-style keys by default. Is this apparant contradiction intentional? Cheers, Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
Markus Friedl
2001-Jul-21 14:11 UTC
Defaults for protocol and ssh-keygen (and an introduction)
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:55:18PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:> Anyhow, onto the first question. ssh these days uses protocol version > 2 by default, but ssh-keygen stil generates old-style keys by > default. Is this apparant contradiction intentional?no, this is a default that should not be changed now. this will break to many things, i think. perhaps later.
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