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Improve connection pooling cache key scheme

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reading the context in pull request #289, then trace the connection-pooling cache key implementation it discusses. The issue does not name files, entry points, or tests; completion would require replacing the merged kludge with a clearer cache-key scheme and verifying the affected pooling behavior.

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Description

See https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit/pull/289 for context. We merged a bit of a kludge.

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