GH-636: Handle unknown key types in known_hosts#638
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Harden the parser so that it can parse known_host and authorized_key lines with unknown key types. Introduce a new UnsupportedSshPublicKey class to be able to deal with such entries later on when the server host key is compared. (An alternative would have been not to create PublicKeys from known_host lines at all but to serialize the given server key into string form and then just compare against the string from the known_host line. But that is not possible without breaking API...) Such an UnsupportedSshPublicKey supports getting its key type, its raw key data, its fingerprint, and it can be written into a Buffer.
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Harden the parser so that it can parse known_host and authorized_key lines with unknown key types. Introduce a new UnsupportedSshPublicKey class to be able to deal with such entries later on when the server host key is compared. (An alternative would have been not to create PublicKeys from known_host lines at all but to serialize the given server key into string form and then just compare against the string from the known_host line. But that is not possible without breaking API...)
Such an UnsupportedSshPublicKey supports getting its key type, its raw key data, its fingerprint, and it can be written into a Buffer.
Fixes #636.