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2024 Jun 24
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[Bug 3703] New: HashKnownHost deprecation
...ss obscurity measure, and the most it can ever offer is protection against casual shoulder-surfing disclosure[*] I wish I never added it. I consider it the most stupid thing I've ever done to OpenSSH :( As far as what a concrete migration plan would look like, maybe something like: 1) Add an ObscureKnownHostnames option that, instead of hashing, simply base64-encodes the hostnames. This provides the same level of protection as the current option. Recommend this instead of HashKnownHosts in the manual. 2) (later) Add a deprecation warning to HashKnownHosts 3) (later still) Remove the HashKnownHost...