OpenSSH 3.9 not hashing known_hosts

[Lee Colleton]

On 5/20/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I just need to find a bit of time to finish the packaging of OpenSSH
> 4.0. I'm inclined to turn on known_hosts hashing, but I'm made a little
> cautious by upstream not enabling it by default yet, so I imagine I'll
> experiment and see how well it works. Failing that, it seems likely to
> me that the facility will be improved upstream and eventually made the
> default anyway.

The only problem I see with this is that the current known_hosts file
will not be hashed unless the user runs the following command:

ssh-keygen -H -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts
(I think this is right, from the manpage)

Maybe this could be put into a script to be done by default upon
package installation.