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.TH THUMBPRINT 6 .SH NAME thumbprint \- public key thumbprints .SH DESCRIPTION .PP Applications in Plan 9 that use public keys for authentication, for example by calling .B tlsClient and .B okThumbprint or .B okCertificate (see .IR pushtls (2)), check the remote side's public key by comparing against thumbprints from a trusted list. The list is maintained by people who set local policies about which servers can be trusted for which applications, thereby playing the role taken by certificate authorities in PKI-based systems. By convention, these lists are stored as files in .B /sys/lib/tls/ and protected by normal file system permissions. .PP Such a thumbprint file comprises lines made up of attribute/value pairs of the form .IB attr = value or .IR attr . The first attribute must be the application tag: .B x509 for tls applications or .B ssh for ssh server fingerprints. The second attribute must be a hash type of .B sha1= or .BI sha256= followed by the hex or base64 encoded hash of binary certificate or public key. All other attributes are treated as comments. The file may also contain lines of the form .B #include .I file .PP For example, a web server might have thumbprint .EX x509 sha1=8fe472d31b360a8303cd29f92bd734813cbd923c cn=*.cs.bell-labs.com .EE .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR pushtls (2)