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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dsa keys.
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:02:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ccbc0143d54d5ee81dd78f2cffe0e9@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ff8dae0ae840c59fec4de80d69a55c7@quanstro.net>

> true enough. but this can become chicken-and-egg logic.
> as in: ssh doesn't support dsa because auth doesn't support dsa.
>
> i thought that getting auth to support dsa keys would be a good start
> on ssh support.

ssh doesn't support dsa not because there is no dsagen
but because it only supports version 1 of the protocol.
if you write an rsa-only ssh2, i will be happy to add the
dsa code.

/n/sources/contrib/rsc/*ssh*

russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-12  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12  1:00 quanstro
2006-03-12  0:17 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-12  1:20   ` quanstro
2006-03-12  0:34     ` William Josephson
2006-03-12  1:43       ` quanstro
2006-03-12  1:02         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-12  2:07           ` quanstro
2006-03-12  1:03         ` William Josephson

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