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



Am Sonntag, 28. Juni 2009 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> 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?

Oh, this is missing in the package description. curl can use https and the 
curl and rsync plugins can do gpg verification.


Greetings
Timo

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