ssh-keygen -Z

[Ruslan Makhmatkhanov]

Benjamin Kaduk wrote on 17.02.2014 08:56:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> there is -Z parameter in ssh-keygen --help output, but no mention of
>> it in ssh-keygen's man-page. Any clue what values this parameter accept?
>
> It is the "new-format ciphername", which can be used for RSA keys if the
> new format file is being used, and is used for the elliptic curve keys,
> if I'm reading things correctly. I guess that would mean that it accepts
> things like "chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com" and "aes256-ctr" (see the
> table ciphers[] in cipher.c), though I don't know which ones make sense
> to pass in there.
>
> I guess we should ask the OpenBSD folks to document it, the -Z argument
> was added to ssh-keygen.c in r1.237 back in December.
>
> -Ben

Thank you for description!

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Ruslan

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