Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:34:00 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: "Gavin Spomer" <spomerg@cwu.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD Message-ID: <op.ufv0eyoc8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl> In-Reply-To: <48A40805020000900001C185@hermes.cwu.edu> References: <48A40805020000900001C185@hermes.cwu.edu>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:25:09 +0200, Gavin Spomer <spomerg@cwu.edu> wrote: [snip] >> I'm not quite sure right now why you're using rsa keys. I'm always using >> dsa keys (ssh-keygen -t dsa). It comes to my mind, that rsa keys are for >> ssh version 1, while dsa keys are for ssh version 2. >> But I could be wrong here ;) >> No man ssh handy right now, sorry. > > If that's true, then I believe I will start using the dsa ones! I think > I chose rsa because the FreeBSD manual indicated I could use either and > I could only find settings for enabling rsa in sshd_config on the remote > servers, but I'll look again... This story about rsa and dsa is not true. Rsa wasn't free (patents or something else) until a few years ago. So everybody used dsa. But since quite some time it doesn't matter what you use. I don't know about advantages of one above the other. In daily use they are the same. Ronald.
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