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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2018-02-19 00:55:02 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2018-02-23 13:37:32 +1100
commitfcdb9d777839a3fa034b3bc3067ba8c1f6886679 (patch)
tree367b76a401822a7d60f92a4d3973803978b11d33 /PROTOCOL
parentce066f688dc166506c082dac41ca686066e3de5f (diff)
upstream: emphasise that the hostkey rotation may send key types
that the client may not support, and that the client should simply disregard such keys (this is what ssh does already). OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 65f8ffbc32ac8d12be8f913d7c0ea55bef8622bf
Diffstat (limited to 'PROTOCOL')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/PROTOCOL b/PROTOCOL
index 4e9e8757..b1fc0069 100644
--- a/PROTOCOL
+++ b/PROTOCOL
@@ -295,10 +295,14 @@ has completed.
string[] hostkeys
Upon receiving this message, a client should check which of the
-supplied host keys are present in known_hosts. For keys that are
-not present, it should send a "hostkeys-prove@openssh.com" message
-to request the server prove ownership of the private half of the
-key.
+supplied host keys are present in known_hosts.
+
+Note that the server may send key types that the client does not
+support. The client should disgregard such keys if they are received.
+
+If the client identifies any keys that are not present for the host,
+it should send a "hostkeys-prove@openssh.com" message to request the
+server prove ownership of the private half of the key.
byte SSH_MSG_GLOBAL_REQUEST
string "hostkeys-prove-00@openssh.com"
@@ -454,4 +458,4 @@ respond with a SSH_FXP_STATUS message.
This extension is advertised in the SSH_FXP_VERSION hello with version
"1".
-$OpenBSD: PROTOCOL,v 1.31 2017/05/26 01:40:07 djm Exp $
+$OpenBSD: PROTOCOL,v 1.32 2018/02/19 00:55:02 djm Exp $