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Re:SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC by vetinari on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:38PM (#38667953)
Did you follow the link? The point was exactly setting up X.509 PKI for SSH authentication. Yes, it can be used with SSH, that was the GP's point.
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Re:SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC by e12e on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:06PM (#38669425)
The link talks about setting up a ssh ca, not x509?

> For our part, the most recent release of step & step-ca (v0.12.0) adds basic SSH certificate support. In other words:

> step-ca is now an SSH CA (in addition to being an X.509 CA)

> step makes it easy for users and hosts to get certificates from step-ca

It's a tool that do x509 ca for x509 things and ssh ca for ssh.

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Re:SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC by frutiger on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:50PM (#38668062)
I’m replying to parent not the overall post.
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Re:SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC by whatisyour on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:44PM (#38668013)
you can disable X.509 for SSH
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