Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Where does Putty client stores the SSH Key Fingerprints?


In brief, Putty is a SSH client freeware for Windows and Linux/Unix

While connecting to remote SSH server for the first time, Putty suite will prompt user to acknowledge acceptance of the remote server’s SSH host key fingerprint.

Putty Security Alert


At this time, you could click Yes button to keep/cache the SSH host key fingerprint in Windows Registry, if you’re certain that’s the genuine server you’re connecting to....

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys

Registry

After clicking the Yes button, Putty won’t prompt you for acknowledgement on the subsequent SSH connections made to this specific server, unless the host key fingerprint mismatch or the cache in Windows Registry has been removed/deleted.



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2 comments:

  1. i was not aware of this ,thanks for sharing the knowledge.

    Kumar

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