[Gllug] RSA or DSA

[Anthony Newman]

John Winters wrote:
> The utility ssh-keygen offers you the choice of RSA or DSA keys, with no
> default selection and no clues about why you might choose one over the
> other.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice about which is the better choice, and why?
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 


"rsa vs dsa" returns 37,100 documents on Google :)

One of my cow-orkers has just mentioned that RSA has known cryptographic 
weaknesses, traded off against higher CPU overhead for DSA. I believe 
either can be used for both encryption and authentication with SSH 
version 2, which DSA could not for v1 IIRC.

Ant
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