[Cryptography] SSH key text format:

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Jan 10 19:53:38 EST 2019


Jan Schaumann <jschauma at netmeister.org> writes:

>IIRC the formats used by OpenSSH are not defined anywhere but in their code.
>(I once went through that when trying to figure out how to convert between
>RFC4716 and OpenSSH formats: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ssh2pkcs8.html)

I think everyone who implements SSH has done this at one time or another.  In
brief, it's just the base64-encoded form of the SSH public key record.

Peter.


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