Bug#413240: ITP: sshfp -- DNS SSHFP records generator

[Peter Mathiasson <peterm@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:53:59PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>
> 
> * Package name     : sshfp
>   Version          : 1.1.1
>   Upstream Authors : Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> and Jake Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>
> * URL              : http://www.xelerance.com/software/sshfp/
> * License          : GPL
>   Programming Lang : Python
>   Description      : DNS SSHFP records generator
> 
> sshfp generates RFC4255 SSHFP DNS records based on the public keys stored in
> a known_hosts file, or public keys can be obtained by using ssh-keyscan.
> Serve these entries from the DNS server for your domain to provide
> authentication via the ssh VerifyHostKeyDNS option.

What functionality does this provide over ssh-keygen included with openssh?

-- 
Peter Mathiasson