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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk> - Solaris fixing, thanks to Ben Taylor <bent@clark.net> - Merged beginnings of AIX support from Tor-Ake Fransson <torake@hotmail.com> + - Release 1.2pre15 19991124 - Merged very large OpenBSD source code reformat @@ -33,3 +33,15 @@ Commercial SSH controlled logging using the "QuietMode" and logging options "SyslogFacility" and "LogLevel". See the sshd manual page for details. +4. Warning messages about key lengths + +Commercial SSH's ssh-keygen program contained a bug which caused it to +occasionally generate RSA keys which had their Most Significant Bit +(MSB) unset. Such keys were advertised as being full-length, but are +actually only half as secure. + +OpenSSH will print warning messages when it encounters such keys. To +rid yourself of these message, edit you known_hosts files and replace +the incorrect key length (usually "1024") with the correct key length +(usually "1023"). + |