What is this?

David A. Bandel david.bandel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 17:04:11 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:47 AM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> 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?

Nothing.  Just some Debian silliness.  These images and various
blacklists came out after someone "goofed" and made ssh as insecure as
Windoze passwords.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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