Question about Private and Public Keys:

From: Adam Ophir Shapira (red_angel_at_techno-info.com)
Date: 05/22/03

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    Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:27:33 -0400
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com

    On the GNU/Linux Manual page for ssh, I found the following
    information:

    > The public key method is similar to RSA authentication described
    in the
    > previous section and allows the RSA or DSA algorithm to be used: The
    > client uses his private key, $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa or
    $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa, to
    > sign the session identifier and sends the result to the server. The
    > server checks whether the matching public key is listed in
    > $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and grants access if both the key is
    found and
    > the signature is correct. The session identifier is derived from a
    > shared Diffie-Hellman value and is only known to the client and the
    > server.

    Does anyone know where the formats of these files are documented?

    After all, I can't really use them if they're not propperly documented.

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