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Date:      Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:57:05 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
To:        Bernard Spil <bernard@bachfreund.nl>
Cc:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS-UP: OpenSSH DSA keys are deprecated in 12.0 and 11.0
Message-ID:  <22DB6A66-B8E8-4C13-B3F8-A3B53213E220@freebsd.org>
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> On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Bernard Spil <bernard@bachfreund.nl> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi Devin,
>=20
> This resource documents the choices pretty well I think
> https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html =
<https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html>;
> Author has made some modifications up to Jan 2016
> =
https://github.com/stribika/stribika.github.io/commits/master/_posts/2015-=
01-04-secure-secure-shell.md =
<https://github.com/stribika/stribika.github.io/commits/master/_posts/2015=
-01-04-secure-secure-shell.md>
>=20
> The short answer then is ed25519 or rsa4096, disable both dsa and =
ecdsa.
>=20
> Even 6.5p1 shipped with 9.3 supports ed25519.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> Bernard.
>=20

Thanks for confirming, Bernard!
--=20
Cheers,
Devin


> On 2016-08-08 19:56, Devin Teske wrote:
>> Which would you use?
>> ECDSA?
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography =
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography>;
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography =
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography>>;
>> "" In the wake of the exposure of Dual_EC_DRBG as "an NSA undercover
>> operation", cryptography experts have also expressed concern over the
>> security of the NIST recommended elliptic curves,[31]
>> =
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#cite_note-31 =
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#cite_note-31>>;
>> suggesting a return to encryption based on non-elliptic-curve groups.
>> ""
>> Or perhaps RSA? (as des@ recommends)
>> (not necessarily to Glen but anyone that wants to answer)
>> --
>> Devin
>>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA256
>>> This is a heads-up that OpenSSH keys are deprecated upstream by =
OpenSSH,
>>> and will be deprecated effective 11.0-RELEASE (and preceeding RCs).
>>> Please see r303716 for details on the relevant commit, but upstream =
no
>>> longer considers them secure.  Please replace DSA keys with ECDSA or =
RSA
>>> keys as soon as possible, otherwise there will be issues when =
upgrading
>>> from 11.0-BETA4 to the subsequent 11.0 build, but most definitely =
the
>>> 11.0-RELEASE build.
>>> Glen
>>> On behalf of:	re@ and secteam@
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