Subject: Re: known_hosts support (first take)

Re: known_hosts support (first take)

From: Alexander Lamaison <swish_at_lammy.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:55:11 +0100

2009/5/4 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
>
> Thanks, then I need to add such a function that can export the full key. In my
> initial take I'll focus on OpenSSH complience, but I figure it could be useful
> to see what it takes to support putty's file format too. Anyone knows any
> details?

As noble a sentiment as that is, it might be more trouble than it's
worth as Putty stores the keys in the Windows Registry
(HKCU/Software/SimonTatham/PuTTY/SshHostKeys). It doesn't do anything
terribly complex---just seems to stored them raw as far as I can see.
It might be best to add inbuilt OpenSSH compatibility, because parsing
those files is not fun, but provide an API so that developers can
easily add support for another system as they wish (basically just a
key access function).

Alex

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