Re: draft-ietf-secsh-dns-01.txt Fingerprint digest alg

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:25:57PM +0100, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
> > The only digest algorithm listed is SHA1. I think this is inconsistant with
> > draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint-01.txt (expired) which specified MD5 as
> > the fingerprint digest algorithm.
> 
> yes, that is intentional - I can not see any reason for using md5.

well we've been using md5 in openssh forever. it's because ossh
only had md5 support and not sha1.