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From: Clemens Gruber <clemens.gruber@pqgruber.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] OpenSSH patches
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:35:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150707093503.GA26870@pqgruber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <915054555B5659448ACF8A70E114824D01BD2C5ECE@Exchange2010.kamstrup.dk>

Hi Bruno,

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:13:09AM +0000, Bruno Thomsen wrote:
> I agree, when possible we should use ed25519. Adam Langley blog entry[1].
> 
> /Bruno
> 
> [1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/15/suddendeathentropy.html

That's a great blog article! Thanks.

Can you think of any drawbacks to removing DSA? I think RSA was used in OpenSSH
before DSA, so even very old clients should be happy with RSA and the newer
clients can check against the Ed25519 host key.

Regards,
Clemens

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-07  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07  8:52 Clemens Gruber
2015-07-07  9:13 ` Bruno Thomsen
2015-07-07  9:35   ` Clemens Gruber [this message]
2015-07-14 10:03 ` Michael Olbrich
2015-07-29 20:05   ` Clemens Gruber

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