Am Montag, 31. März 2008 15:46:28 schrieb Timothy J Miller:
> Public or private?  The req command will happily read secsh format,
> e.g.:
>
> openssl req -key ~/.ssh/id_rsa -new | openssl req -pubkey
>
> This will convert a secsh formatted pubkey into PEM (you can just give
> the default responses for the X.509 fields).

I thought: both. thanks for letting me know there is a way to convert public
key files at least. secsh is the ssh 1 format? openssh has a different format 
these days, I guess that will be version 2?

> Now private keys--aye, there's the rub.
>
> FWIW there were patches posted to one of the OpenBSD newsgroups a few
> years back to have ssh-keygen provide this capability (at least for
> public keys) but they don't seem to have ever made it into the main
> trunk:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/os.openbsd.tech/2004-09/msg00092.html

shall we document these things in our FAQ? can anyone propose a new text
(maybe use svn checkout ... /svn/web/trunk to get the sources and send a 
patch)?

Thanks and regards, Andreas
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