[lug] problems with ssh key authorization after

[dan radom]

after a little googleing it appears that ssh-keygen -t rsa generates a ssh2 rsa key (~/.ssh/id_rsa)  If you've ever generated a dsa key you'll know it takes much longer to generate and is much larger.  can we assume better encryption?

dan

* Hugh Brown (hugh at vecna.com) wrote:
> I don't know that it is.  I just saw these three lines listed in the
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and I know that ssh-keygen defaults to
> .ssh/identity and ssh-keygen -t dsa defaults to .ssh/id_dsa.
> 
> I was wondering what the rsa listing was for.
> 
> Hugh