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[ale] Best kind of ssh key
- Subject: [ale] Best kind of ssh key
- From: yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)
- Date: Tue Sep 25 15:53:00 2007
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <1190738275.7146.4.camel@evan> <1190741372.14395.1.camel@localhost> <1190741995.7146.7.camel@evan> <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:57 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> "incite" - Funny - was that intentional?
>
> I'll have to say that I think it isn't really a good point. While PuTTY
> does run on Windoze it is not built by M$ and any issues it would have
> of the nature discussed would be the fault of the folks that wrote it.
> However, it you read the OP you see that the PuTTY folks are
> specifically stating that they believe their implementation of DSA is
> OK. They're just saying that RSA doesn't have the randomness in the
> first place so wouldn't need to rely heavily on "good" implementation of
> the package authors.
Randomness and predictability are more likely OS issues than application
issues. So, the best of applications, on a poor OS, could easily be
impacted.
-Jim P.