Hi, Im fairly new to private and public key encryption, so dont quite understand all the concepts.
I have the need to scp a file to a remote server without specifying the password as it is done from a non-interactive script. I have accomplished this by generating a dsa key without a passphrase. Although this works I am worried about the security concerns of doing this? (Without a passphrase, how does it authenticate? Based on the machines dsa key which was made from machine specific entropy?) I know of programs such as ssh-agent, but these require you to enter a passphrase at the beginning of the session which it then remembers, this isnt possible as it is non-interactive in my case. Does anyone have any ideas or comments? TIA Stefan Lesicnik
