Re: "Host name" definition somewhere in the ID set?

[Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau%connotech.com@localhost>]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 16:36, Thierry Moreau wrote:
>
>
> > As an outsider of the SSH protocol community (if any), I looked at the 
> > latest Internet-Drafts. I was looking at the initial trust on a host 
> > public key (well explained in tha architecture draft at 4.1  Host Keys).
> >
> > My question refers to the definition of a server host name, from a 
> > security perspective. It should be in a security certificate sent by the 
> > SSH server.
>
>
> specifications for optional use of certificates of any sort with SSH would be
> desirable, but everyone who has stepped up and volunteered to write a draft
> on how to do this has later had to apologize for not having time to follow
> through...
>
> are you volunteering? :-)
>
> 							- Bill

Actually, I found the security certificate usage in SSH IDs well explained.

My single concern is that "host name" is not defined anywhere in the SSH 
    Internet drafts. This definition would be by reference to another 
document, I guess.

May I apologize immediately for lack of voluntary contribution from my part.

Regards,

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- Thierry Moreau

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