Subject: Re: X11 forwarding not working with in-tree sshd
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/05/2000 10:11:55
> > A key database where you could share ssh host keys with ipsec would
> > be good too.  
> The professional paranoid in me worries that reusing the same key for
> both purposes might have unexpected consequences..

I figured I must have misunderstood because I don't see why one would
want to share a single per-host key between different algorithms
either.

Let's say SSH puts its public key for host X into /etc/big-file-o-keys.  
Now if ipsec were to use that same host key for DES it would be using
what for all purposes was a disclosed key.  Not good.

-wolfgang
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