Allow `id_ed25519.pub` key file to be found as default SSH key

[Marian Eberl]

RStudio has changed the default generated SSH key to ED25519, which means that also the key file name changed and cannot be found by the default internal cyphr function openssl_find_pubkey. I would suggest to:

• add id_ed25519.pub to the default algorithm to find keys inside the ~\.ssh folder OR
• allow custom key names

[Wes Hinsley]

Thanks for reporting this:

For custom key names, you can set the environment variable USER_KEY to ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and similarly USER_PUBKEY to ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub (for example) as an immediate workaround.

If id_ed25519 looks like being a common filename, then Cyphr could additionally look for that, as well as id_rsa.

[Marian Eberl]

@weshinsley Thanks for your reply and for working on an implementation on new key types. I have just tried the workaround using the USER_KEY environment variables. This workaround fails for me during the step cyphr::data_admin_authorise (User used an ED25519 key. Admin uses RSA key.) with the following error message:

cyphr::data_admin_authorise(data_dir, yes = TRUE, path_user = ssh_admin_dir)

Error in openssl::rsa_encrypt(sym$key(), dat$pub) : 
  check failed: (inherits(pk, "rsa"))

Or is it a problem if the same user name requests access from different hosts?

Maybe this is also relevant for your new feature implementation.

[Wes Hinsley]

This needs a change in the openssl package, to be able to encrypt the symmetric key with the different key... Still working on it...