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Docs: note "wrong host key" warning is stronger.

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To try to prime readers learning the often-seen "unknown host key"
warning to recognise the rarer and scarier "wrong host key" warning, if
they see it.
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@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ PuTTY \I{host key cache}records the host key for each server you
connect to, in the Windows \i{Registry}. Every time you connect to a connect to, in the Windows \i{Registry}. Every time you connect to a
server, it checks that the host key presented by the server is the server, it checks that the host key presented by the server is the
same host key as it was the last time you connected. If it is not, same host key as it was the last time you connected. If it is not,
you will see a warning, and you will have the chance to abandon your you will see a stronger warning, and you will have the chance to
connection before you type any private information (such as a abandon your connection before you type any private information (such
password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that looks as a password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that
like.) looks like.)
However, when you connect to a server you have not connected to However, when you connect to a server you have not connected to
before, PuTTY has no way of telling whether the host key is the before, PuTTY has no way of telling whether the host key is the