[Gllug] DSA/RSA

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Thu Aug 30 15:02:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:08 +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> What's the difference between DSA and RSA encryption for ssh?

DSA isn't for encryption, it's for signing. The small clues is that DSA
stands for "Digital Signature Algorithm".

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