What Is a Purpose of an SSH Host Key

question 28

Multiple Choice

What is a purpose of an SSH host key?

• A) It must be sent by any SSH client in addition to a user key in order to identify the client's host.
• B) It is root key by which all user SSH keys must be signed.
• C) It provides the server's identity information to connecting SSH clients.
• D) It authenticates any user that logs into a remote machine from the key's host.
• E) It is used by system services like cron, syslog or a backup job to automatically connect to remote hosts.

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