[arch-general] Any way to decrypt hashes set by ssh HashKnownHosts?

[Xavier]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Was this change forwarded to the OpenSSH developers? I am sure that if
> it is indeed better security-wise to hash the known_hosts file, they
> would change the default configuration upstream. I'm also sure that they
> would give very good reasons for not wanting to do so.
>
>

So I just went googling about this stuff. I saw this option got
enabled years ago on Debian, and after that a few users complained
about that change, but without any real reasons. (so a bit like what
is happening here now :))
Anyway, there was a huge thread on debian mailing list, I finally
found one mail which partially answers your question :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/07/msg00041.html