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Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Mon, 27 April 2026 23:00 UTC

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:59:57 +0300
From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
To: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
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Damien Miller writes:
> > My proposal is to just do the first thing, i.e., document the existing
> > "ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com" format and keep those names.
> 
> That's not the approach we've taken elsewhere, e.g. with sntrup or
> ssh-agent drafts.

And I think that was mistake, and I think we should fix it now (not
for those older documents, but any new documents going forward). 
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kivinen@iki.fi

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