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Replace the type-checking COMPTR macro with my current idea of best
[sgt/putty]
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man-pg.but
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doc/man-pg.but
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doc/man-pg.but
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-37,7
+37,11
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the following section.
\S{puttygen-manpage-options} OPTIONS
In the first phase, \c{puttygen} either loads or generates a key.
\S{puttygen-manpage-options} OPTIONS
In the first phase, \c{puttygen} either loads or generates a key.
-The options to control this are:
+Note that generating a key requires random data (from
+\c{/dev/random}), which can cause \c{puttygen} to pause, possibly for
+some time if your system does not have much randomness available.
+
+The options to control this phase are:
\dt \e{keyfile}
\dt \e{keyfile}
@@
-95,8
+99,8
@@
be the standard SSH-1 key format, or PuTTY's own SSH-2 key format.
\dd Save the public key only. For SSH-1 keys, the standard public key
format will be used (\q{\cw{1024 37 5698745}...}). For SSH-2 keys, the
\dd Save the public key only. For SSH-1 keys, the standard public key
format will be used (\q{\cw{1024 37 5698745}...}). For SSH-2 keys, the
-public key will be output in the format specified
in the IETF
-
drafts,
which is a multi-line text file beginning with the line
+public key will be output in the format specified
by RFC 4716,
+which is a multi-line text file beginning with the line
\q{\cw{---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----}}.
\dt \cw{public-openssh}
\q{\cw{---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----}}.
\dt \cw{public-openssh}