[ale] Best kind of ssh key

[Jeff Lightner]

My point was that people seemed to be misreading the OP.  

In that it does NOT say that DSA is bad in PuTTY (or Windoze).  

It says instead that they believe the implementation for DSA is well
done and are simply commenting on what they see as a general reason to
prefer RSA over DSA.   

I was specifically challenging what appeared to me to be a misread of
that OP.  It seemed to imply that the OP had quoted something that said
the opposite of what it actually said.

If I express a preference for brunettes over blondes it does NOT mean I
am saying Jessica Simpson is ugly and I'd be ashamed to be seen with
her.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Popovitch
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:53 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] Best kind of ssh key

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:57 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> "incite" - Funny - was that intentional? 
> 
> I'll have to say that I think it isn't really a good point.  While
PuTTY
> does run on Windoze it is not built by M$ and any issues it would have
> of the nature discussed would be the fault of the folks that wrote it.
> However, it you read the OP you see that the PuTTY folks are
> specifically stating that they believe their implementation of DSA is
> OK.  They're just saying that RSA doesn't have the randomness in the
> first place so wouldn't need to rely heavily on "good" implementation
of
> the package authors.

Randomness and predictability are more likely OS issues than application
issues.  So, the best of applications, on a poor OS, could easily be
impacted.

-Jim P.


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