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Re: Accepted openssh 1:4.7p1-9 (source all i386)



I have a question about the key blacklist feature in this new release.
What if ssh-keygen is run, and happens to generate a blacklisted key.
Will it abort or print a warning or something like that? Should it?

If ssh-keygen generates such a key today, openssl is broken. But if it
happens a couple of years from now, you're probably just astronomically
unlucky and the fixed openssl happened to still generate a key in the
small set of weak keys. And in that hypothetical, the user probably
doesn't know anything about what happened historically (today) and could
be very puzzled that their shiny new key doesn't work.

-- 
see shy jo

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