From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 27 7:55:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D03D37B41D for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RFtVx88335; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:55:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:55:31 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Tom Rhodes Cc: dan@tangledhelix.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys? Message-ID: <20020327105531.A88300@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020326185714.F22539@mail.webmonster.de> <20020326182003.F15545-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020326181634.A919@lothlorien.tangledhelix.net> <20020327074236.B86929@blackhelicopters.org> <20020327110100.6d638389.darklogik@pittgoth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020327110100.6d638389.darklogik@pittgoth.com>; from darklogik@pittgoth.com on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:01:00AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:42:36 -0500 > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > Perhaps a comment in the file, "we recommend using v2 whenever > > possible", so people stumble across it frequently even if they don't > > bother reading the docs? > > How about a nice addition to the ssh manual pages just because I do > not think they describe things well enough. For instance, when I > first started using scp(1), I fought like hell before I figured it > out. I do not feel the manual page had a clear description of how > to use scp(1). It did, however, cover the options well... I think > that it should describe how to use protocol 2, I also think it should > point you to a reference of the use options. Certainly a possibility. However, this is contrib code. Be sure to ask your mentor about altering contrib code. Upon investigation, I see that even the config file is contrib code. Heck, Tom, you're a FreeBSD committer now, certainly you could become an OpenSSH -doc committer too. :-) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message