If we're going to be picking nits....
> AFAIK... The passpharse-less host keys are encrypted with 3-DES and
> no password. They were, at one time, encrypted with IDEA with no
> password.
...neither IDEA nor triple-DES *can* encrypt with no "password" (by
which I have to assume you mean what is normally, for a block cipher,
called a "key").
Perhaps you mean "some non-secret key"[%], which is not the same thing
as *no* key. (Of course, from a security point of view, if a
non-secret key is used, it makes no difference which one it is.)
[%] The one resulting from following the usual algorithms on a
zero-length passphrase, perhaps...?
> Like I said... Just a nit...
"What he said."
der Mouse
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