[FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS-UP: OpenSSH DSA keys are deprecated in 12.0 and 11.0

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Aug 11 13:20:10 UTC 2016


On 2016-08-08, Devin Teske <dteske at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Which would you use?

Ed25519.

> Or perhaps RSA? (as des@ recommends)

RSA if you need compatibility with servers or other clients that
don't know Ed25519.  That's why ssh-keygen, alas, still defaults
to RSA.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de


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