Re: Bug? in SSH public key file format

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost> writes:

> >It doesn't look like a central piece of the infrastructure. So at least I
> >wouldn't mind having it changed now.
> 
> Oh, in that case I'd be all for it - I had the feeling there'd be grumblings
> about "It's too late to change now".

I would feel that way if this text format were part of the "core
drafts", but it's not.

The recently expired draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-04.txt is the
latest specification for the public key file format, right?

> Yup.  See RFC 1113 for the general specification.

It would make some sense to have the SSH2 public key file spec refer
to RFC 1421 (the successor of RFC 1113).

Regards,
/Niels