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OpenSSH 5.1 released

Posted Jul 22, 2008 16:29 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
Parent article: OpenSSH 5.1 released

Any examples of what the experimental ASCII host key visualisation looks like?

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Posted Jul 22, 2008 17:02 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Sure. Here are a couple of my hosts (courtesy of ssh -o VisualHostKey=true):

+--[ RSA 1024]----+
|          E.     |
|            .    |
|           .     |
|        ...      |
|       +So.   . .|
|        =.. .oooo|
|         o.++oo= |
|          o=+o.  |
|           .+.   |
+-----------------+

+--[ RSA 1024]----+
|OO+              |
|Ooo.             |
|oo..             |
|.o.              |
| o.o    S        |
|. o .  .         |
| .   oo          |
|  .  Eo.         |
|   .. ..         |
+-----------------+

OpenSSH 5.1 released

Posted Jul 22, 2008 23:12 UTC (Tue) by djm (subscriber, #11651) [Link]

We call it "nethack mode" :)

OpenSSH 5.1 released

Posted Jul 23, 2008 6:36 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The man in the middle strikes! -- More --
You feel terminally confused.

OpenSSH 5.1 released

Posted Jul 23, 2008 7:31 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

Heh, lucky that my coffee isn't done yet :)