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| 2016-02-27 | 2016-03-16 | ||
| wikilink (martin) | 5.8.2 Bug 1394 Method Session.ScanFingerprint to scan server’s hostkey or certificate fingerprint. (martin) | ||
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| In exceptional situations, when security is not required, such as when connecting within a trusted private network, you can use ''-hostkey=*'' or ''[[library_sessionoptions#giveupsecurityandacceptanysshhostkey|SessionOptions.GiveUpSecurityAndAcceptAnySshHostKey]]'' to blindly accept any host key. | In exceptional situations, when security is not required, such as when connecting within a trusted private network, you can use ''-hostkey=*'' or ''[[library_sessionoptions#giveupsecurityandacceptanysshhostkey|SessionOptions.GiveUpSecurityAndAcceptAnySshHostKey]]'' to blindly accept any host key. | ||
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| + | If you want to allow a user to manually verify the host key, use the ''[[library_session_scanfingerprint|Session.ScanFingerprint]]'' method to retrieve the key fingerprint. Then let the user to verify it and assign the verified value to the ''SessionOptions.SshHostKeyFingerprint'' property. | ||