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Re: Debian GNU/Hurd porter box strauss.debian.net available



On Thu, 28 May 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> > > The SSH public key is attached, the key fingerprint is
> > > 0f:95:27:cf:9a:b2:88:bf:d7:10:24:b4:51:f9:7a:ef.
> > 
> > I think it would be useful to have a new package with the ssh public key 
> > fingerprints of all accessible debian machines, possibly signed by some DSA 
> > member (to detect local tampering). It would ease a trust path from the user 
> > to the machine. Having to look up these messages (if they exist in the first 
> > place), and creating a trust path from yourself to the poster when one might 
> > need to connect is suboptimal I think.
> > 
> 
> Note that all those keys are available on:
> 
>     https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi

And on all d.o hosts in /etc/ssh and in LDAP and in DNS.

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