Comment 1 for bug 1006528

I'm using paramiko (http://www.lag.net/paramiko/) to parse the known_hosts and .ssh/config files. This library is SSH2 protocol only.
I don't want to implement the parsing part on my own. I already did this for my Gnome extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/73/ssh-search-provider/) because there isn't a library for javascript to parse the SSH files.

Also I don't think that a lot of people using SSH v1, but when there is still your described workaround with the ~/.ssh/config file

Furthermore I prefer to rely on a library for this job. But if you would like to provide a patch for this feature request I will have a look at it and integrate this feature into my version.