Subj : Re: Chromium and self-signed certificates
To   : All
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Mon Sep 02 2024 03:44:44

On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 22:49:42 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:

> Are the certificates and keys the same between SSH and TLS?

The basic encryption algorithms may be the same, but the usage is a little
different. SSH has no concept of “certificates”, only of “host keys”
versus “user keys”. Each key is of course actually a key pair, consisting
of a public key (freely redistributable, but recipients need to be sure
they get them from a trusted source) and a corresponding private key
(never to be disclosed to anybody else).

There is a file in your SSH client config called “known_hosts”, which
contains the public host keys of all the hosts you’ve previously connected
to; this is used to guard against somebody trying to impersonate any of
those hosts when you next try to connect.

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