host key fingerprint

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:38:33 +0100 (WEST)
Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> 
> > It's the checksum of the key.
> > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3088&group_id=1
> >
> I knew this one. It doesn't explain which checksum it is. md5? sha1?
> something else taylored for openssh? The output is in hexadecimal
> format...
> I know I can use ssh-keygen to get a fingerprint (assuming that I
> already have the key in a file), but what does ssh-keygen really do?
> -- 

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