From bf3f6ef19b8d43b09598807cc30de7e66be37563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damien Miller Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:50:10 +1100 Subject: Doc updates --- ChangeLog | 1 + UPGRADING | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e5fdd6b0b..26adf6e68 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Niels Kristian Bech Jensen - Solaris fixing, thanks to Ben Taylor - Merged beginnings of AIX support from Tor-Ake Fransson + - Release 1.2pre15 19991124 - Merged very large OpenBSD source code reformat diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index b1c0b9da3..f9732cf53 100644 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -33,3 +33,15 @@ Commercial SSH controlled logging using the "QuietMode" and logging options "SyslogFacility" and "LogLevel". See the sshd manual page for details. +4. Warning messages about key lengths + +Commercial SSH's ssh-keygen program contained a bug which caused it to +occasionally generate RSA keys which had their Most Significant Bit +(MSB) unset. Such keys were advertised as being full-length, but are +actually only half as secure. + +OpenSSH will print warning messages when it encounters such keys. To +rid yourself of these message, edit you known_hosts files and replace +the incorrect key length (usually "1024") with the correct key length +(usually "1023"). + -- cgit v1.2.3