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Re: Publickey subsystem draft



At 01:44 PM 9/10/2003, Markus Friedl wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:30:05PM -0600, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> Why not use the methodology used by SSH-KEYGEN?  It's simple to implement
> and would be in keeping with that used on the server already.

the server does not need to see the private key.

i also think that the server should _never_ see the private key.

I agree with you, but I missed the point of your message.


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