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

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:12 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
> > The fact that fears me is that by hashing the known_hosts
> > file information is lost, in particular the information that binds the
> > IP address to the hostname.
> 
> You are more than welcome to change the config settings. In all my
> history with arch, we have always pointed fingers at the end user for
> not paying attention to their config files, and I seriously have no
> idea why this is a big deal now, a year after this change was made.
> Sure it could have been more visible, but we have always held that the
> config files are _your_ job.

Hey No Problem. I have changed most of my config files a year ago, I
just grab the opportunity to discuss that now that it's hot. My main
point is that it should have been hot a year ago. I'm also struggling to
figure out why I disliked this change that much back then. :-s


Dimitris