[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have looked around and have found confusing info regarding which is a better key cipher to use for ssh authentication. Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. Some say that it doesn't really matter, as long as you use a large enough bits setting in creating

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 09:07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much since most attacks don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 October 2006 22:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 09:07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. DSA is mathematically stronger than

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Drew
DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much since most attacks don't come from attacking the core of the algorithm anyway. Do you mean that an RSA key with twice the number of bits (e.g. 2048 or even higher) is still weaker (i.e. easier to crack) than the DSA

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:51, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': RSA has the advantage of allowing longer key lengths From what I understand, the DSA algorithm has no particular ties to the 1024-bit key length