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Re: [PLUG] ssh keys: rsa vs dsa
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On Thursday 27 May 2004 15:39, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
| Thanks, Toby.
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| Why do we generate DSA keys for ssh then?
For historical reasons. For years and years, RSA was under patent and was thus
unimplementable in projects unwilling to pay royalties to RSADSI (e.g.
OpenSSH). The patent expired, however, and so projects can now use the RSA
algorithm which does not yield the generation of a second temporary
transaction key for encryption as it does when using DSA. DSA (as an
algorithm) is slower at signing/verifying than RSA anyway. DSA remains the
default for SSH for historical reasons.
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Tobias DiPasquale
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