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Re: HashKnownHosts



* Marco d'Itri:

> On Jul 02, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> > What is the rationale for changing the default setting?
>> Reducing wormability.  I think it's a pretty clever change.
> This is not what I asked, I know what this option is for.

Given it's purpose, this option doesn't make that much sense if it's
not enabled by default.

(Actually, I hope it's not just Microsoft who sometimes piss off their
users if security-related changes require it.  Otherwise, Microsoft
will easily win the security wars even before they are declared.)



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