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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:35:40 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssh-keygen and slogin oddity
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> do you have any reference for this?

There has been discussion about this on the openssh-unix-dev mailing list.
Basically RSA is a better choice when the source of random numbers is
suspect.  A description of this problem in conjunction with DSA is in the
WARNING.RNG file in the openssh source package.  For the next version
I'll put in into /usr/share/doc/openssh as well.

Corinna

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