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Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS-UP: OpenSSH DSA keys are deprecated in
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On 2016-08-08, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Which would you use?

Ed25519.

> Or perhaps RSA? (as des@ recommends)

RSA if you need compatibility with servers or other clients that
don't know Ed25519.  That's why ssh-keygen, alas, still defaults
to RSA.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de