Re: need help with public keys

From: s c o t t (spaceacademy@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/23/02

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    From: "s c o t t" <spaceacademy@hotmail.com>
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:57:25 -0800

    What format do they require?
    Is their host running sshd from OpenSSH or some other source?
    It is possible you may need to use ssh-keygen to convert your key to a
    different format (see man ssh-keygen). When used with the -e command line
    switch ssh-keygen can convert your key to the 'SECSH Public Key File
    Format', perhaps this is what they want?

    cheers,
    -scott

    ----Original Message Follows----
    From: "Thorsten Hofrichter" <thofrichter@na.ko.com>
    To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
    Subject: need help with public keys
    Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:13:04 -0500

    I am new to this group . So hello to all , and thanks in advance for any
    help you can provide .
    I am trying to exchange public keys with another company so we can do
    transfers yet , when I send them my id_rsa.pub they say they format is
    wrong, I look at my private key and that is the kind of format they want.
    My public key just has :
    RSA nowscrambled text.

    Any ideas would be great as there is a lot of pressure to get this done.
    Thorsten Hofrichter
    The Coca-Cola Company
    Infrastructure and Support Team
    Phone: 404-676-2240
    Email: thofrichter@na.ko.com

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