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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2024-08-17 10:35:04 +0200
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2024-08-17 10:35:31 +0200
commita0b35c791cad1f85481b23ba46373060292e1c80 (patch)
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parentupstream: fix minor memory leak in Subsystem option parsing; from (diff)
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upstream: mention that ed25519 is the default key type generated and
clarify that rsa-sha2-512 is the default signature scheme when RSA is in use. Based on GHPR505 from SebastianRzk OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 1d90df71636a04601685d2a10a8233bcc8d4f4c5
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diff --git a/ssh-keygen.1 b/ssh-keygen.1
index df6803fd9..06f0555a4 100644
--- a/ssh-keygen.1
+++ b/ssh-keygen.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.232 2024/06/17 13:50:18 naddy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.233 2024/08/17 08:35:04 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 17 2024 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 17 2024 $
.Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ Specifies the type of key to create.
The possible values are
.Dq ecdsa ,
.Dq ecdsa-sk ,
-.Dq ed25519 ,
+.Dq ed25519 (the default),
.Dq ed25519-sk ,
or
.Dq rsa .
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ The available RSA signature variants are
.Dq rsa-sha2-256 ,
and
.Dq rsa-sha2-512
-(the default).
+(the default for RSA keys).
.It Fl U
When used in combination with
.Fl s