Private Host Keys?

From: Sven Riedel (sr_at_gimp.org)
Date: 01/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:16:37 +0100
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com

    Hi,
    I'm wondering about the existence of private host keys. The manpage
    states that (for protocol v2) ssh client and server generate session key
    via Diffie-Hellmann exchange and that the client compares the public key
    of the server with the stored public key in a known_host-file. Am I
    right in surmising that private host keys are unneeded for host
    authentication in protocol v2 and simply exist for protocol v1 backward
    compatibility? If not, what are they used for?

    Regs,
    Sven 

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