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Bug#174156: marked as done (ssh: not able to properly export a private key to SECSH standard)

Your message dated Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:09:12 +0100
with message-id <56E9D988.2010301@free.fr>
and subject line Re : Bug#174156 - ssh: not able to properly export a private key to SECSH standard
has caused the Debian Bug report #174156,
regarding ssh: not able to properly export a private key to SECSH standard
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.4p1-2.se1.bam.3
Severity: normal

Recently I wanted to try out a commercial version of ssh from ssh.com.
I didn't want to disturb my friends logging to my box with this little update and wanted to use my existing keys. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to export my private key to SECSH standard:
ssh-keygen -e -f ssh_dsa_key (the private) and 
ssh-keygen -e -f ssh_dsa_key.pub 
both gave the same output - the public key in SECSH format.
I  couldn't get the converted private key though 
Normally I use SID but to make it sure I tried the stable distribution
too. With the same result.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux scarab 2.4.18-686 #1 Wed Dec 18 01:34:03 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.ISO8859-2, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.ISO8859-2

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.47             Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                 1.0.32           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.2.5-11.2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules          0.72-35          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                0.72-35          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.6             0.9.6c-2.woody.1 SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6-9            Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.1.4-1        compression library - runtime

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hello,

Upstream will not add this feature as indicated by Markus Friedl:

> it's still possible to convert a private ssh.com key
> to openssh format, but not vice versa. we don't
> intend to provide support for migrating waway _from_ openssh

A workaround is possible (by Damien Miller):

> OpenSSH's protocol 2 keys are in a standard PEM format which
> you can dump out using "openssl rsa -noout -text -in .ssh/id_rsa"

Regards,

--
Stéphane Aulery

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