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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

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