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Re: OpenSSHd - Publickey-Authentication - Has 3.9 problems with 16384Bit DSA-keys?


From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:14 -0600

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:54 +0100, vh wrote:
I created a 16384-Bit DSA-Key and stored the public part of this key in
./ssh/authorized-keys. I'm able to login with a 4096Bit DSA-Key but the
SSHd wont accapt the 16384Bit-Key and falls back to passwort
authentication.

heh... I'm just curious: Why do you think a 4096 bit key is not
sufficient? 
And, don't you think the session setup of a 16K+ key would be
computationally expensive?

Frank

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