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Re: Bug#534891: ITP: openssh-known-hosts -- known_hosts downloader for OpenSSH



On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:47:39AM +0200, Timo Weingärtner wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

>    Package name: openssh-known-hosts
>         Version: 0.2
> Upstream Author: Timo Weingärtner <timo@tiwe.de>
>             URL: will go to mentors.debian.net as soon as I get the bug number
>         License: GPL2+
>     Description: This package allows you to download public hostkeys from
>                  multiple sources and merge them together into one file for
>                  use by OpenSSH. Plugins for some types of sources are
>                  included, new plugins can easily be written.

How does this avoid *totally negating* the security value of doing SSH host
key validation?

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