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Remove user-key-oriented advice from host key docs.

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It would be rare to have a host keypair in .ppk format or on a client
machine to load into PuTTYgen, and it might confuse people into thinking
they are required to do so.
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Jacob Nevins 2015-01-18 14:44:45 +00:00
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@ -2514,12 +2514,10 @@ The text describing a host key can be in one of the following formats:
Event Log and host key dialog boxes, i.e. sixteen 2-digit hex numbers
separated by colons.
\b A base64-encoded blob describing an SSH-2 public key in the
standard way. This can be found in OpenSSH's one-line public key
format, or by concatenating all the lines of the public key section in
one of PuTTY's \cw{.ppk} files. Alternatively, you can load a key into
PuTTYgen, and paste out the OpenSSH-format public key line it
displays.
\b A base64-encoded blob describing an SSH-2 public key in
OpenSSH's one-line public key format. How you acquire a public key in
this format is server-dependent; on an OpenSSH server it can typically
be found in a location like \c{/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub}.
If this box contains at least one host key or fingerprint when PuTTY
makes an SSH connection, then PuTTY's automated host key management is