Michael Erskine wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:33, Joseph Bruni wrote: >> An OpenSSH key is not an OpenPGP key. There are some efforts to use OpenPGP >> keys for SSH authentication, however. > > Can they be somehow integrated or will I always need two (or more) sets of > keys? Are the keys used by OpenSSH in themselves somehow less secure or is > there something in their nature that means they can never be used by OpenPGP? > My limited understanding was that symetric keys were just a pair of fancy > numbers! :) >
Since I can't be bothered explaining, here are some links that will do it for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://sixdemonbag.org/cryptofaq.html -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g
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