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Subject: Re: Using libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile() when I don't haveapublic key

Re: Using libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile() when I don't haveapublic key

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:20:57 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I think the simplest is to make libssh2 use GnuTLS. Decrypting
> password-protected private keys isn't a low-level crypto task, and thus
> doesn't belong in libgcrypt, it is a more high level feature. GnuTLS
> already supports it, and has the same license as libgcrypt.

I wouldn't mind doing that switch if it brings us that functionality. 

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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