security/openssh-portable line # 82 of rc.d/openssh generates DSA not ECDSA

[J. Hellenthal]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:46:20PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
> >
> > As stated in the subject
> >
> > if [ -f /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key ]; then
> >        echo "You already have a Elliptic Curve DSA host key" \
> >                "in /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key"
> >        echo "Skipping protocol version 2 Elliptic Curve DSA Key Generation"
> > else
> >        /usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa \
> >                -f /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key -N ''
> > fi
> >
> >
> > Specifically "/usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa" needs to be changed to
> > "-t ecdsa" to be correct. Otherwise we are just reimplementing a DSA key
> > in a different file.
> 
> Good eye.  I'm in the process of updating that port to 6.0p1.  There
> are quite a lot of local patches that are part of the port.  At the
> moment I'm muddling through what they do and whether they can be
> removed or not.  I didn't even notice this problem.
> 
> I've attached a pair of patches that correct this problem.  Open a PR
> about this, and you can attach these patches to it.  I'm not the
> maintainer nor do I have commit privileges, but if you open a PR, I'm
> sure someone will make the change.

Should have also said the changes were already committed.

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