Thanks, applied.

Michael

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On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:52:15 +0100, Alexander Dahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> While this might be not 100% conforming to ssh standard (?), it is
> common practice.  DSA is considered weak [1] and e.g. OpenSSH deprecated
> it with the 7.0 release back in 2015 [2].
> 
> dropbear states in its source: “DSS may be necessary to connect to some
> systems though is not recommended for new keys”.
> 
> Furthermore: requiring both RSA _and_ DSS host keys, increases time to
> generate keys a lot, making this unfortunate in bootstrapping embedded
> targets.
> 
> [1] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/112818/43663
> [2] 
> https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2015-August/000122.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Consider this patch RFC, or just apply or drop it at will.
> 
>  rules/dropbear.in | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/dropbear.in b/rules/dropbear.in
> index fa6f283f1..107a11caf 100644
> --- a/rules/dropbear.in
> +++ b/rules/dropbear.in
> @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ comment "Hostkey/public key algorithms, at least one 
> required --- SSH2 RFC Draft
>  config DROPBEAR_RSA
>       bool
>       prompt "rsa"
> +     default y
>       help
>         RSA was announced in 1978. The security of the RSA system
>         is based upon the RSA Problem (RSAP). This problem is
> @@ -293,7 +294,6 @@ config DROPBEAR_RSA
>  config DROPBEAR_DSS
>       bool
>       prompt "dss"
> -     default y
>       help
>         DSS stands for Digital Signature Standard.
>         DSS employs the ElGamal and Schnorr PK systems to produce
> @@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ config DROPBEAR_DROPBEAR
>       default y
>       select DROPBEAR_DROPBEAR_KEY
>       select DROPBEAR_RSA
> -     select DROPBEAR_DSS
>       select BUSYBOX_START_STOP_DAEMON if BUSYBOX
>       help
>         Installs the dropbar server in /usr/sbin/dropbear on the target
> 

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