In article <mailman.187.1365227369.3114.python-l...@python.org>, Darren Spruell <phatbuck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to work with user submitted/uploaded SSH public keys from > Python. I'm trying to solve what I'd thought might be a simple need: > given a user's OpenSSH formatted _public_ key (RSA, or DSA, or > whatever), how do you obtain information about it such as: key type > (e.g. ssh-rsa, etc.); bit length (e.g. 2048); key comment (e.g. > user@hostname); key fingerprint? I've been fiddling with the Paramiko > API and looked at PyCrypto (supports OpenSSH keys) and Twisted Conch > but didn't see anything that looked like it did this. > > I'm looking for the equivalent to this: > > $ ssh-keygen -l -f tmp.key.pub > 2048 9b:31:06:6a:a4:79:97:33:d7:20:15:1f:cd:b4:86:4d dspruell@Sydney.local > (RSA) > > ...to get the attributes of the public key: key type, bit length, > fingerprint and comment. > > Is there an SSH library capable of doing this from Python? Can break > out to shell commands to parse them but I'd prefer not to. The first hit on googling "paramiko fingerprint" got me this: http://www.lag.net/paramiko/docs/paramiko.PKey-class.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
