Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:56:56 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>, Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, markus@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH patches Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911021254310.73778-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911021151531.78894-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, James Wyatt wrote: > I was under the impression that the RSA code was best for ApacheSSL > support and anything else (like ssh) could use several others (DES, > BlowFish, etc...). There's a fundamental difference between public-key algorithms like RSA, and symmetric algorithms like DES and Blowfish. RSA is used for key distribution in SSH where you have a private key on your client and the corresponding public key on the server. YOu can't use a symmetric algorithm to do that (altough there are non-restricted Public-key algorithms which could be used to replace RSA). You can still use it in "password" mode, which uses the UNIX account password to generate a key for a symmetric algorithm like Blowfish. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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