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Re: RSA or DSA ssh keypairs preferred?


Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it> wrote:

> Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Any preference RSA or DSA? I've never managed to find anything saying
>> whether one is better than the other or not.
>>
> DSA are 'newer' and lack of a little bug in calculating the
> fingerprint (in old RSA keys it is possible to forge a fingerprint
> just moving bits from the exponent to the base, see in it.sci.crypt
> faq for more infos). Though RSA keys created today doesn't have the
> same problem too, I think. Another pro of DH/DSA key is the capacity
> to have separaetd subkeys, which can expire indipendently.

In ssh ?!?
I'm aware of this in gnupg, but ssh keys aren't this sophisticated, are
they?

Max.


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