Tobias DiPasquale on 27 May 2004 19:12:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] ssh keys: rsa vs dsa


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On Thursday 27 May 2004 14:40, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
| Is there a reason to generate both rsa and dsa keys for ssh?  I seem
| to generate them in pairs.  I wonder if I really need one of each for
| each.

RSA is preferable in most cases, since DSA is slower and cannot encrypt in and 
of itself (DSA is a signing algorithm only).

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Tobias DiPasquale
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