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Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer

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Subject Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, David Wright wrote:

> The stretch version of scp displays fingerprints using a SHA256
> hash, but of course a jessie machine has no idea of what its
> fingerprint is except using an MD5 hash. A question and suggestion:
>
> Is there a way to get stretch scp to show the fingerprint in MD5
> when connecting to a new (jessie) host?

I don't have a jessie host to test this on:

  $ scp -o FingerprintHash=md5 file_to_copy account@recipient.host:destination_file

Does it work?

> IIRC the debian-installer only shows the SHA256 fingerprint.  It
> ought to display the MD5 version too, for those people installing
> over the network with ssh from an older machine.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

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Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-24 21:00 +0100
  Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in  debian-installer davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-26 09:10 +0100
    Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-26 18:00 +0100

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