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OpenSSH makes bcrypt key encryption default
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marc.info
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by
oomkiller
on Dec 7, 2013
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oomkiller
on Dec 7, 2013
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For those that don't know, OpenSSH previously used MD5 to secure the private keys. They added the option a while back to use PBKDF2 via PKCS#8, but I rarely see it in use in the wild.
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