Index the older format as 'PEM-style', since PEM is how it's referred to
in OpenSSH's own docs; and justify why you might want to use the newer
format.
GUI Pageant stopped using SSH identifiers for key types in fea08bb244,
but the docs were still referring to them.
As part of this, ensure that the term "NIST" is thoroughly
cross-referenced and indexed, since it now appears so prominently in
Pageant.
(While I'm there, reword the "it's OK that elliptic-curve keys are
smaller than RSA ones" note, as I kept tripping over the old wording.)
When I was writing the documentation for the new command-line options,
I wondered why there was an existing section for the corresponding GUI
setting for each option I'd added except strong primes. Now I've found
it: strong primes are discussed in the same section as prime-
generation methods. So I can replace the second explanation with a
cross-reference.
This imports the following options from command-line PuTTYgen, which
all correspond to controls in Windows PuTTYgen's GUI, and let you set
the GUI controls to initial values of your choice:
-t <key type>
-b <bits>
-E <fingerprint type>
--primes <prime gen policy>
--strong-rsa
--ppk-param <KDF parameters or PPK version etc>
The idea is that if someone generates a lot of keys and has standard
non-default preferences, they can make a shortcut that passes those
preferences on the command line.
I've filled in some text about prime generation methods and Ed448,
which were all the things marked as 'review before release'.
While I'm at it, also filled in a reasonable enough DSA key length
recommendation, because the FIXME comment in that section was within
sight of one of the places I was editing. FIPS 186-4 seemed to think
that RSA and DSA had comparable relationships between the key length
and practical security level, so I see no reason not to use the same
recommendation for both key types.
Because SSH-1 is a very niche interest these days. Mostly this affects
the public key documentation.
Also, a couple of unrelated concessions to modernity.
Remove the 'winhelp-topic' IDs from the Halibut source, and from the
code. Now we have one fewer name to think of every time we add a
setting.
I've left the HELPCTX system in place, with the vague notion that it
might be a useful layer of indirection for some future help system on a
platform like Mac OS X.
(I've left the putty.hlp target in doc/Makefile, if nothing else because
this is a convenient test case for Halibut's WinHelp support. But the
resulting help file will no longer support context help.)
I think the deterministic DSA system we've been using for ages can now
be considered proven in use, not to mention the fact that RFC 6979 and
the Ed25519 spec both give variants on the same idea. So I've removed
the 'don't use DSA if you can avoid it' warning.
I've shifted away from using the SVN revision number as a monotonic
version identifier (replacing it in the Windows version resource with
a count of days since an arbitrary epoch), and I've removed all uses
of SVN keyword expansion (replacing them with version information
written out by Buildscr).
While I'm at it, I've done a major rewrite of the affected code which
centralises all the computation of the assorted version numbers and
strings into Buildscr, so that they're all more or less alongside each
other rather than scattered across multiple source files.
I've also retired the MD5-based manifest file system. A long time ago,
it seemed like a good idea to arrange that binaries of PuTTY would
automatically cease to identify themselves as a particular upstream
version number if any changes were made to the source code, so that if
someone made a local tweak and distributed the result then I wouldn't
get blamed for the results. Since then I've decided the whole idea is
more trouble than it's worth, so now distribution tarballs will have
version information baked in and people can just cope with that.
[originally from svn r10262]
This was a bit rushed, and could doubtless be improved.
Also fix a couple of things I noted on the way, including:
- "pscp -ls" wasn't documented
- Windows XP wasn't mentioned enough
[originally from svn r5593]
discussed. Use Barrett and Silverman's convention of "SSH-1" for SSH protocol
version 1 and "SSH-2" for protocol 2 ("SSH1"/"SSH2" refer to ssh.com
implementations in this scheme). <http://www.snailbook.com/terms.html>
[originally from svn r5480]
line for every single .but file at the bottom of each page of the
HTML PuTTY docs. However, we can't _always_ replace that with a
single SVN revision, because there isn't always one available (SVN
still allows mixed working copies in which some files are
deliberately checked out against a different revision).
Hence, here's a mechanism for doing better. It uses `svnversion .'
to determine _whether_ a single revision number adequately describes
the current directory, and replaces all the version IDs with that if
so. If it can't do that, it uses the version IDs as before.
Also, this allows an explicit version string to be passed on the
make command line which will override _both_ these possibilities, so
that release documentation can be clearly labelled with the release
version number.
[originally from svn r4804]
and this caused public key authentication to fail in spite of
following our instructions to the letter. It can't hurt to
s/g-w/go-w/ here, just in case!
[originally from svn r4205]
users. Update the file selection dialogs to mention it per the usual Windows
convention, and also sprinkle references to it throughout the docs. I've
also scattered hints that most tools need PuTTY's native format; perhaps this
will reduce the frequency with which FAQ A.1.2 trips people up.
[originally from svn r2625]
might give a bit count one less than the one the user asked for. Two
people have been worried by this now, and it's probably worth
documenting that it's perfectly normal.
[originally from svn r2369]
Updated manual to reflect reality (e.g. usage messages, '-p port' not actually
implemented, sprinkle references to '-i keyfile').
(I've put "Release 0.53" in the messages; let's hope this doesn't cause a
flood of "where is 0.53?" email.)
I don't guarantee that the result is entirely sane and sensible in all
respects, but it is at least consistent.
[originally from svn r1951]
Import command; the former warns you if you load a foreign key,
whereas the latter doesn't. So the user should always be aware, one
way or the other, that a format conversion is taking place.
[originally from svn r1687]
