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On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> >     It does indeed, but it won't grok DSA keys.
> 	Bummer.  Putty supports SSH 2... strikes me as odd that it
> doesn't.  Documentation says it doesn't, or did you try?  Remember dsa
The putty homepage says it is not supported since Windows doesn't have a
proper random number generator and that makes DSA unsecure.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html#dsa

Simon




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