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Perl5 interface to a fingerprint in "bubble babble" format PR: 35889 Submitted by: jesper
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Digest::BubbleBabble takes a message digest (generated by
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either of the MD5 or SHA-1 message digest algorithms) and creates
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a fingerprint of that digest in "bubble babble" format.
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Bubble babble is a method of representing a message digest
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as a string of "real" words, to make the fingerprint easier
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to remember. The "words" are not necessarily real words, but
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they look more like words than a string of hex characters.
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Bubble babble fingerprinting is used by the SSH2 suite
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(and, consequently, by Net::SSH::Perl, the Perl SSH
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implementation) to display easy-to-remember key fingerprints.
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The key (a DSA or RSA key) is converted into a textual form,
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digested using Digest::SHA1, and run through bubblebabble
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to create the key fingerprint.
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