Re: Question about Private and Public Keys:

From: Jeff Dickison (kabal_at_undercoverworld.com)
Date: 05/23/03

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To: Adam Ophir Shapira <red_angel@techno-info.com>

    Adam Ophir Shapira wrote:

    > 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.
    >
    >
    >
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2631.txt

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