What is this?

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Fri Nov 21 11:55:37 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, James McDonald wrote:
>I just did ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 and I get:
>
>
>The key's randomart image is:
>+--[ DSA 1024]----+
>|                 |
>|                 |
>|                 |
>|        .        |
>|       oS.       |
>|     .+ o..      |
>|     =+o.=..    .|
>|    . ++oo+ .. E.|
>|    .o  .... .+.+|
>+-----------------+
>
>What the heck does it mean?

Something that the Latest & Greatest version of openssh spews out?

I saw this when building the OpenPKG versions of this recently,
but since things are working, I haven't worried about it.

Bill
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