Bug#492447: ssh: (upstream) -o VisualHostKey suggestion

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 492447 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493
thanks

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:55:30AM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
> It might be interesting, if VisualHostKey would use more geometrically
> connecting characters. Such as, say if we printed character -,
> it could be followed to the right, by only \, /, -, ., ) etc. Anything
> that would make it appear as consistent picture to human eye.
>  Also I'd like to believe most terminals are capable of ANSI colours,
> so that could add accuracy of the identification in very cheap
> manner, but the colours would need to be also locked to the
> neighbouring colours, so that it would produce consistent colour
> theme, instead of random cacophony. Perhaps it could be -o
> VisualHostKey=colour.

Thanks for your report. I've forwarded it as
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1493; perhaps you could
subscribe there and follow up to upstream comments as appropriate.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]