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Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:02:47 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Add support for cracking encrypted PKCS #8 private keys

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:45 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 May, 2013, at 20:46 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
>> I got interested in this patch again after reading
>> http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.html
>>
>> I am about to clean-up this patch and commit it to bleeding-jumbo.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Is this added to existing ssh format, or a new format? Could you perhaps implement your own PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey()?
>

This functionality is added to the existing ssh format.

This patch should be good enough for now. If this key format becomes
popular (and / or default) I can then look into implementing our own
PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey()

-- 
Dhiru

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