Re: [PLUG] ssh keys: rsa vs dsa

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:11:40PM -0400, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
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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.
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> RSA is preferable in most cases, since DSA is slower and cannot encrypt in and 
> of itself (DSA is a signing algorithm only).

Thanks, Toby.

Why do we generate DSA keys for ssh then?

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