[Nix-dev] SECURITY: default SSH host keys are weak

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Fri Aug 23 20:36:26 CEST 2013


Hi,

On 23/08/13 20:25, Mathijs Kwik wrote:

> I currently only have an ecdsa host key and would like to keep it that way.
> This patch would give me a dsa key too which I don't want.

The ssh client prefers ECDSA host keys over DSA keys so I don't think this is a
big deal.  But we could have an option to enable/disable generation of DSA keys.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/


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