From bf3f6ef19b8d43b09598807cc30de7e66be37563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damien Miller Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:50:10 +1100 Subject: Doc updates --- UPGRADING | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPGRADING') diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index b1c0b9da..f9732cf5 100644 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -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"). + -- cgit v1.2.3