Re: [SVN-DEV] RE: Auth in ra_dav

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:57:25PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Sander Striker wrote:
> > And, I've been having a little chat with Ben Laurie that is probably
> > bringing me back to reallity: client certs.
> >
> > I guess I will just have to forget about ssh in combination with svn :)
>
> SSH and client certificates both use public-key cryptography, and (I
> believe) the actual algorithms to use are selectable in the protocol.
> Why don't you see if you can write a ssh-public-key to "public"
> client-cert and ssh-private-key to "private" client-cert converter, with
> the aim of making it as easy as possibly to do the migration (i.e. without
> requiring another key exchange with the project host)?

Ah. Good idea... that is just the kind of idea I was hoping people would
come up with.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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