eliott schrieb:
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
unhashed known_hosts *is* more unsecure.

If someone gets access to your account, they would get
a) your key
b) a list of hosts that the key is valid for

hey! great!

Compund this with the fact that many people use keys without a
passphrase (a bad practice), someone can 'harvest' known_host data,
and worm out to other hosts.. here is the kicker ... in a way that is
easily automated.

The point is, without any notice, we provided a different configuration file than the upstream configuration file. That's not how we do it, we always provide the upstream configuration file.

If someone thinks that having unhased known_hosts is a security problem, then he/she can change this configuration option on his/her system, that is how Arch works. But now that hashed known_hosts silently became the default, I cannot revert back.

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