Re: Bug? in SSH public key file format

["Brent McClure" <mcclure%swcp.com@localhost>]

This post got out the door a little sooner than I had planned...

I was summarizing some comments made about the publickey file draft,
and was responding to them...

--Brent

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent McClure" <mcclure%swcp.com@localhost>
To: <ietf-ssh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:56 PM
Subject: 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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