Re: Bug? in SSH public key file format

[Jakob Schlyter <jakob%rfc.se@localhost>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost wrote:

> The "SSH Public Key File Format" draft currently says:
>
> >The first line of a conforming key file MUST be a begin marker, which is the
> >literal text:
> >
> >---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
>
> It might be a good idea to point out in the text that this is unlike any other
> known (standardised) use of this type of tagging (PGP, OpenPGP, X.509, PKCS
> #10, CRLs, etc etc etc) which all use 5 dashes and no space, e.g:
>
> [...]

or perhaps change the format to use 5 dashes and no space?


	jakob