Opened at 2014-04-06T23:19:03Z

Last modified at 2014-04-22T18:17:54Z

#2213 new enhancement

Make SFTP generate its own key

Reported by: PRabahy Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: undecided
Component: code-nodeadmin Version: 1.10.0
Keywords: sftp ssh-keygen usability security Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

On windows, running ssh-keygen is not trivial. It would be easier to setup if tahoe could generate its own keys for SFTP.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed at 2014-04-06T23:20:33Z by PRabahy

I ran into this issue because I tried to use keys that I generated from Putty, but tahoe wouldn't start up using them. Eventually I used the ssh-keygen bundled with Git Bash, but I wouldn't expect a regular user to have that installed.

comment:2 Changed at 2014-04-07T17:52:04Z by daira

  • Component changed from unknown to code-nodeadmin
  • Keywords sftp ssh-keygen usability security added
  • Owner daira deleted

comment:3 Changed at 2014-04-22T18:17:10Z by daira

I'm not sure I want us to commit to the cryptography library dependencies that this would require. In particular, I'd hate to get up to the point of being able to drop a dependency, for example on RSA, only to find that we need it just to generate ssh keys.

Last edited at 2014-04-22T18:17:54Z by daira (previous) (diff)
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