host key fingerprint

[Ken Leyba]

This may be what you're looking for:

http://www.vandyke.com/technology/draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint.txt

Ken

On 8/25/05, Ronnie Gauthier <ronnieg at chartermi.net> wrote:
> 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?
> > --
> 
> It's babble
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