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Re: Bug? in SSH public key file format



The first was possibly changing the header from:

 "---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----"

to this:

 "-----BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY-----"

The second suggestion was to allow a blank line between the "header"
portion of the PK file and the PK itself, for example:

 -----BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY-----
 Comment: "768-bit dsa"
 Foo: Optional header section
 Bar: terminated by a mandatory empty line

 AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAABhAJw3J7CMyAKiX8F1Mz1dNguVQi7VZQQrLl8DeWNQaSkqmIPjsc
 zSn4Cjv9BOt8FM46AZbw+aSou0jpiFPJJiQjpT5U1ArPLoMqRpopqcZqcVubRKALTzytgw
 ....


The problem with these changes is that this document was produced to
document existing practices, so making changes to the format is problematic.

This draft needs to be refreshed, but I wanted to clarify some of this
first.

--Brent








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