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Support Private-Key Standard PKCS #8 #650

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Generate a PKCS #8 private key like 
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.ht
ml
2. Push the private key to Android
3. import in Connectbot

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected: import, works
instead: error, can't import

What version of the product are you using (you can see this by using Menu
-> About in the Host List)?
1.7.1 2010.10.08

Please provide any additional information below.

Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8: Private-Key Information Syntax 
Specification Version 1.2 is defined here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5208

It's superior to OpenSSHs default AES-128 in CBC mode, see 
http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.ht
ml

Please support this private key format.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by i...@zeromail.org on 25 May 2013 at 1:32