The authenticity of host 'ssh.example.com (123.234.123.234)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 96:21:c3:32:3d:cc:18:d5:53:6a:d4:0d:0d:73:c6:1a.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
This initial message is what Monkeysphere is designed to fix.
Monkeysphere distributes GPG-signed SSH host keys. If you have the admin's trusted public key, and they sign their hosts' keys, you can trust the host key even if you haven't connected to it before.
Speaking as an admin, I've seen way too many end users click through certificate warnings for self-signed certs without understanding what they are doing. Firefox is doing the right thing (and now that IE 8 is doing something similar, I'd say they aren't the only ones who think so.)
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This initial message is what Monkeysphere is designed to fix.
Monkeysphere distributes GPG-signed SSH host keys. If you have the admin's trusted public key, and they sign their hosts' keys, you can trust the host key even if you haven't connected to it before.
http://web.monkeysphere.info/
Fortunately, for those of us who are a few years younger, there's Oolite.
Speaking as an admin, I've seen way too many end users click through certificate warnings for self-signed certs without understanding what they are doing. Firefox is doing the right thing (and now that IE 8 is doing something similar, I'd say they aren't the only ones who think so.)
...to rhyme with 'atrocities' ?
The article ends:
> Engineers celebrated the success with champagne,
> but a certain brand of beer was not on the menu.
Now I may just be some dumb American, but I can't figure out which brand they are talking about.
Really, so something like 2676.2732 people collected?
It was called a "Skywriter". I had one, too. Ah, the cool toys of the 80's...
I wonder if this will drop out whenever it rains
or snows like infrared Ethernet does?