>> Also, you're looking at it from POV of a clueful user, not of an admin
>> with lusers who wants to protect a specific box. How does the admin
>> (try) apply password-strength policies to ssh-key passwords? How can
>> the admin even enforce that users protect keys with a password?
>
Hmmm, the technology to do that is available, Lotus Notes has been
enforcing that for years. Maybe somday it will be ported to sshd?
cheers
Bernhard
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