Fingerprint creation with OpenSSH 6.8

I am running a GitLab instance with OpenSSH 6.8:

OpenSSH_6.8p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2a 19 Mar 2015

Running ssh-keygen -l yields e.g.:

2048 SHA256:tywD9wGaP/uIXNihLx3eGYXLrn4n6MZV9bWBAB0RKYo imported-openssh-key (RSA)

Which is different from the output of OpenSSH 6.6 (different server, different key).

2048 50:b9:f8:94:30:87:03:af:c9:86:99:ec:1c:2e:fc:f4  .ssh/id_rsa (RSA)

It seems GitLab cannot cope with the former format (which seems to be new) and reports it cannot generate the fingerprint. Further digging shows there is a new option:

   -E fingerprint_hash
          Specifies  the  hash  algorithm  used when displaying key fingerprints.  Valid
          options are: ``md5'' and ``sha256''.  The default is ``sha256''.

So running ssh-keygen -l -E md5 yields:

2048 MD5:2d:24:5d:f8:e0:a0:2d:23:5f:d4:d5:ef:68:95:01:2b imported-openssh-key (RSA)

Which at least looks similar to the old format. Maybe there needs to be some handling for this new format? E.g. first check the OpenSSH version and then generate a fingerprint depending on the version?

There is a pending PR fixing this https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/9008

mentioned in merge request !519 (merged)

mentioned in commit 345e32d3

Closing since MR merged

Status changed to closed

mentioned in issue #20502 (moved)

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mentioned in commit test-nick/gitlab-ce@280fec64

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