Re: Rekey issue

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> I can see at least three ways of dealing with this: (1) [...], (2)
>> [...], and (3) when rekeying, behave as normal except that a second
>> copy of the host key from the first time around is, effectively,
>> added as a trusted key for the host.

> OpenSSH does:

> (4) silently accept the hostkey if it is identical to the one used to
> authenticte the previous KEX, search the known hostkeys otherwise and
> if not found there then do whatever is configured for hiterto-unknown
> hostkeys.

I must be missing something.  To me, this sounds like (3).  What's the
difference?

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