On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:52, 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.
Hmm, yes I found a reference to this actually being implemented in http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/adminguide/32/Public-Key_Authentication-2.html but that may not be a truly Free Software implementation. Now for the flipside! > 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? Still googling away! > My limited understanding was that symetric keys were just a pair > of fancy numbers! :) Sorry, I meant asymmetric keys of course :) Regards, Michael Erskine. -- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -- Tallulah Bankhead ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
