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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:07:32 -0600
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dsa keys.
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i know. i was just objecting to the logic of "we cant build x because
we also do not have y."

hopefully i'll have time. i still have this unsightly ide drive
sticking out of my plan9 machine. ;-)

- erik

On Sat Mar 11 19:03:10 CST 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> > 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
>