Question about Private and Public Keys:

On the GNU/Linux Manual page for ssh, I found the following information:

> The public key method is similar to RSA authentication described
in the
> previous section and allows the RSA or DSA algorithm to be used: The
> client uses his private key, $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa or
$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa, to
> sign the session identifier and sends the result to the server. The
> server checks whether the matching public key is listed in
> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and grants access if both the key is
found and
> the signature is correct. The session identifier is derived from a
> shared Diffie-Hellman value and is only known to the client and the
> server.

Does anyone know where the formats of these files are documented?

After all, I can't really use them if they're not propperly documented. Received on Thu May 22 20:17:54 2003