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Subject: Re: [9fans] dsa keys.
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:02:46 -0500
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> 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