The type of key to be generated is specified with the t option. Additionally, the system administrator can use this to generate host keys for the secure shell server. Aws ec2 shows the ssh2 fingerprint, not the openssh fingerprint everyone expects. Calculate the fingerprint from an rsa public key updated july 5th, 2017. Sshd586 openssh compliant public key fingerprint asf jira.
Ssh is a great protocol that encrypts traffic between the client and the server among many other things that it does. If invoked without any arguments, sshkeygen will generate an rsa key. However, md5 hashes will be presented in hex while sha1 and sha256 hashes are presented in base64. Ssh is a great protocol that encrypts traffic between the client and. The simplest way to generate a key pair is to run sshkeygen without arguments. You should not need a sha1 digest in hex for verifying a host, since ssh client never displays that, only md5hex or sha1base64 not by default or sha256base64. With sshkeygen you can print the fingerprint l of an input file f and choose the fingerprint hash type e. In this case, it will prompt for the file in which to store keys. Each user wishing to use a secure shell client with publickey authentication can run this tool to create authentication keys.