ssh_key_type_from_name + old identity.pub

[Martin Koller <kollix@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm analyzing a problem with the sftp KDE implementation as
the sftp access to remote servers does no longer work.

What I found out is that the problem lies in the implementation of
the function ssh_key_type_from_name(), which does not detect correctly
the keytype of my very old identity.pub file (from the year 2002).

http://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/tree/src/pki.c#n225

The identity.pub file content is:
1024 35 127039322722111462345444898295833032734724001755370075892619595922392229702202628069448938938754121637956908008581890704540298171311727563323302971541806845615265585131680856896693107049054716180460986201560348234339625510409796271930068304368440665402434317018435896073397995460767091056275814543809518806311 root@eiwnt048

the file is read inside ssh_pki_import_pubkey_file()
and the keytype name is used as the first string in that file up to a blank character - which
is here just the number "1024"

It seems that it's not really a problem of the age of my file, since the command
"ssh-keygen -t rsa1"
still produces a similar file also starting with a number.

Any idea what is the best way to solve this ?
Either by fixing libssh or by changes on my side ?

-- 
Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin
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