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diff --git a/openssh/ssh-agent.1 b/openssh/ssh-agent.1
index 9909ef5..00c1992 100644
--- a/openssh/ssh-agent.1
+++ b/openssh/ssh-agent.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.31 2002/02/04 20:41:16 stevesk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.28 2001/09/05 06:23:07 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
 .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -94,11 +94,9 @@ Keys are added using
 .Xr ssh-add 1 .
 When executed without arguments,
 .Xr ssh-add 1
-adds the files
-.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ,
-.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa 
-and
-.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .
+adds the
+.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
+file.
 If the identity has a passphrase,
 .Xr ssh-add 1
 asks for the passphrase (using a small X11 application if running
@@ -129,11 +127,6 @@ Later
 .Xr ssh 1
 looks at these variables and uses them to establish a connection to the agent.
 .Pp
-The agent will never send a private key over its request channel.
-Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed
-by the agent, and the result will be returned to the requester.
-This way, private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent.
-.Pp
 A unix-domain socket is created
 .Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> ,
 and the name of this socket is stored in the
@@ -154,6 +147,15 @@ line terminates.
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
 Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user.
+This file should not be readable by anyone but the user.
+It is possible to
+specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be
+used to encrypt the private part of this file.
+This file is not used by
+.Nm
+but is normally added to the agent using
+.Xr ssh-add 1
+at login time.
 .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
 Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
 .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa