Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
You say it says "Import private key" which you believe is incorrect.
Then you say that ConnectBot requires a private key...
Which is it?
Anyway, you can derive the public key from the private key.
Original comment by kenny@the-b.org
on 12 Oct 2011 at 5:26
Sorry. The text is "Manage Pubkeys". This should be "Manage private keys". The
client needs private keys only. Public keys are worthless for client, they are
usable for server only.
And no, the public key must not possible to derive or compute from private and
vice versa. The asymmetric cryptography is based upon prediction, that this
does not work (this is possible but in a long time-span, say 10k years, 10G
years or more).
This is possible to put both keys in one file (as IIRC PuTTY does), but OpenSSH
client does not (by default at least).
Original comment by milan.ke...@gmail.com
on 12 Oct 2011 at 8:19
"Pubkey" is just a term that SSH started using. I initially named it "key
pairs," but it's not meant to be read as purely "public key." Key pair seems
appropriate since ConnectBot does store both private and public parts of the
key (even though, for instance, OpenSSH fixes the exponent at 0x10001).
Original comment by kenny@the-b.org
on 12 Oct 2011 at 4:49
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
milan.ke...@gmail.com
on 11 Oct 2011 at 8:00