RSA or DSA ssh keypairs preferred?

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Mon Nov 25 00:32:00 GMT 2002


Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

Aha. That's what I wanted to know. Are there any links you know of for
further info on this?
(Feel free to delete this message without reply if you don't want to take
the time to reply to an off-topic post)

Thanks,

Max.



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