SSH Key Types?

From: George Styles (usenet_at_ripnet.co.uk)
Date: 08/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:06:19 +0100

    Hi,
    Im trying to get SSH key authentication working between 2 linux boxes.

    The key formats seems to be different - one (my Mandrake 10 box) seems to be
    UUEncoded in the form

    ssh-rsa ABAFSFSDF user@host where the actual key is (i assume) uuencoded

    the other (a Colbalt Qube( is of the form

    1024 35 123456764535(etc) user@host where the actual key part is all
    numbers.

    Can anyone tell me what im looking at? ive managed to get it to authenticate
    from the qube to Mandrake by putting the Qubes format of key in
    authorized_keys on the mandrake box (i usually use authorized_keys2 for
    other hosts).

    I cannot get it to work the other way. I assume I need to convert the
    Mandrake key to the 'all numeric' format, and put it in authorized keys on
    the qube

    Can anyone tell me the correct names for these 2 types of key please so I
    can google for the right thing?

    thanks

    g

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