This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: RSA or DSA ssh keypairs preferred?
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:09:50AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > You will need a ssh keypair though, so if you don't have one, you may
> > as well prepare it now.
>
> Any preference RSA or DSA? I've never managed to find anything saying
> whether one is better than the other or not.
ssh-keygen -t rsa
creates an RSA key for SSH2. This is preferable over RSA1 and DSA keys
due to security flaws in both.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
Red Hat, Inc.