Host Certificate Authority (Host CA) A SSH key. When trust is involved a Certificate Authority is required so we will need toĬreate one so the users can trust the hosts and one so the hosts can trust the We want to make the hosts trusted by the user (imagine a new host is set up)īut also we want the hosts trust the user.
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Somehwere other than the real host (which could be abused, among others, toĭisclose our password while trying to login). The rationale here is that we might be fooled to login However, the first time a user connects to a host, SSH asks if we really want Key, the challenge suceeds and no password is required. Private SSH key and sends that to the host. So the host encrypts a challenge using the public We need to prove that the user has the private SSH key related to the public Auhtentication proceeds by a challenge mechanism. In most scenarios users need to copy (using ssh-copy-id or similar) their These keys are used to authenticate the user against each host. User Key Each user can have one (or more than one) SSH key(s). The public key is presented to a user connecting to the host. Host Key Each host has its own SSH key (again, a public and private one) which is used to identify the host. Host The host is the machine we want to connect to using SSH. If the Certificate Authority is trusted we can trust the certificate. certificate Digital signature issued by a Certificate Authority that asserts the authenticity of something, such a SSH key. a public SSH key and a private SSH key) which will be used to emit certificates that we can trust. Certificate Authority Entity which has its own SSH key (i.e. private SSH key The private key of a SSH key is the part that should never be disclosed or distributed. public SSH key The public key of a SSH key is the part that can be disclosed and distributed.
These two keys are related mathematically but deriving one from the other is not possible. In this post we will use the following terminology: SSH key A SSH key is a cryptographic widget made up of two keys (each one stored in a different file): the public SSH key and the private SSH key. Notoriously confusing because it uses several terms at the same time that oftenĪre at the same “semantic” level and so they are easy to mix up. Public key cryptography (I’d dare to say cryptography in general) is Solution it has pros and cons that have to be gauged against the existing Using SSH certificates is not a security panacea.
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