Nicolas Williams wrote:
(Although in fact I'd rather we avoided the term "blob" entirely, as in publickeyfile, due to the conflict with 4253.)What conflict? I see no conflict. RFC4253 *is* the [2] reference.
Yes. I believe Jacob's pointing out that RFC4253 is a bit vague here. It's not entirely clear about whether "blob" is *just* the key/certificate data, or the type string as a header and then key/certificate data (which for ssh-dss and ssh-rsa then includes the type again, hence appearing twice on the wire).
If there's consensus for such a change and we're talking about something not very substantive then your AD may instruct you to make it during AUTH48.
Thanks for the information. If there's a guide somewhere for first-time editors, I've not yet spotted it...
-- Jon Bright