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authorJacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2022-10-21 21:43:26 +0300
committerJacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2022-10-21 21:43:26 +0300
commit8c534c26fd8a8396a5386b416a74d557667357cb (patch)
tree5390cdd8639ac0c9614ee39390d206c40fcf92b8
parent1d1d81d66e3fb997d598a8cf041eec4c916ebcdc (diff)
Docs: note "wrong host key" warning is stronger.
To try to prime readers learning the often-seen "unknown host key" warning to recognise the rarer and scarier "wrong host key" warning, if they see it.
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@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ PuTTY \I{host key cache}records the host key for each server you
connect to, in the Windows \i{Registry}. Every time you connect to a
server, it checks that the host key presented by the server is the
same host key as it was the last time you connected. If it is not,
-you will see a warning, and you will have the chance to abandon your
-connection before you type any private information (such as a
-password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that looks
-like.)
+you will see a stronger warning, and you will have the chance to
+abandon your connection before you type any private information (such
+as a password) into it. (See \k{errors-hostkey-wrong} for what that
+looks like.)
However, when you connect to a server you have not connected to
before, PuTTY has no way of telling whether the host key is the