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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh key type ed25519
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:26:13
Message-Id: 8eb62117-c1e9-2416-0225-d052be605d35@web.de
1 I tried to ssh to another machine and got a failing man-in-the-middle
2 warning.
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4 The fingerprint given to check didn't match that of the target host.  On
5 closer inspection, the entries in known_hosts are *ecdsa-sha2-nistp256*
6 and the offending key was of type *ed25519*, as reported by the client.
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8 These are both gentoo machines, relatively recently updated.
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10 Everything on the net talks about how to generate key files of the
11 appropriate type, but I'm don't want to generate a key file.
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13 Apparently, this is a gentoo configuration issue.  USE flags of openssh
14 on both machines are the same.
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16 There are two news items related to ssh, but neither seems relevant.
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18 Has there been a changed system-wide determination of the key type and
19 what would be the best way to make them consistent across all machines?

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Re: [gentoo-user] ssh key type ed25519 Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>