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| 2023-10-10 | 2024-02-15 (current) | ||
| 6.2 Bug 2145 Support for OpenSSH certificates for host verification (martin) | 6.3 stable released (martin) | ||
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| In some environments, the SSH host keys for a lot of servers will all be signed in turn by a central "certification authority" ("CA" for short). This simplifies host key configuration for users, because if they configure their SSH client to accept host keys certified by that CA, then they don't need to individually confirm each host key the first time they connect to that server.((&puttydoccite)) | In some environments, the SSH host keys for a lot of servers will all be signed in turn by a central "certification authority" ("CA" for short). This simplifies host key configuration for users, because if they configure their SSH client to accept host keys certified by that CA, then they don't need to individually confirm each host key the first time they connect to that server.((&puttydoccite)) | ||
| - | In this section you can configure what CAs WinSCP will accept signatures from. &beta_feature | + | In this section you can configure what CAs WinSCP will accept signatures from. |
| If you check //Load authorities from PuTTY//, WinSCP will load the trusted authorities from PuTTY.((From its Windows registry key. So this configuration won't be [[portable]].)) WinSCP will display loaded authorities in the list below. But you will not be able to configure the authorities in WinSCP. Instead you can press //Edit in PuTTY// button to open PuTTY's trusted authorities configuration window. | If you check //Load authorities from PuTTY//, WinSCP will load the trusted authorities from PuTTY.((From its Windows registry key. So this configuration won't be [[portable]].)) WinSCP will display loaded authorities in the list below. But you will not be able to configure the authorities in WinSCP. Instead you can press //Edit in PuTTY// button to open PuTTY's trusted authorities configuration window. | ||