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diff --git a/doc/draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint-01.txt b/doc/draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint-01.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5edea39d..00000000 --- a/doc/draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint-01.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - -INTERNET-DRAFT Markus Friedl -draft-ietf-secsh-fingerprint-01.txt The OpenBSD Project -Expires in six months September 2003 - - - SSH Fingerprint Format - - -Status of this Memo - - This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with - all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. - - Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering - Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that - other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- - Drafts. - - Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months - and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other docu- ments at - any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference - material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." - - The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at - http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt - - The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at - http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - - Distribution of this memo is unlimited. - -Abstract - - This document formally documents the fingerprint format in use for - verifying public keys from SSH clients and servers. - -Introduction - - The security of the SSH protocols relies on the verification of - public host keys. Since public keys tend to be very large, it is - difficult for a human to verify an entire host key. Even with a PKI - in place, it is useful to have a standard for exchanging short - fingerprints of public keys. - - This document formally describes the simple key fingerprint format. - - - - - - -Friedl [Page 1] - - - - - -INTERNET-DRAFT March 2003 - - -Fingerprint Format - - The fingerprint of a public key consists of the output of the MD5 - message-digest algorithm [RFC-1321]. The input to the algorithm is - the public key blob as described in [SSH-TRANS]. The output of the - algorithm is presented to the user as a sequence of 16 octets printed - as hexadecimal with lowercase letters and separated by colons. - - For example: "c1:b1:30:29:d7:b8:de:6c:97:77:10:d7:46:41:63:87" - -References - - [SSH-TRANS] Ylonen, T., et al: "SSH Transport Layer Protocol", - Internet Draft, draft-secsh-transport-15.txt - - [RFC-1321] R. Rivest: "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", April 1992. - - [RFC-2026] S. Bradner: "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision - 3", October 1996. - -Author's Address: - - Markus Friedl - markus@openbsd.org - Munich, Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Friedl [Page 2] - - |