First Try at Creating Website

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:21:48 +0800
begin  "M.W.Chang" <linuxism at yahoo.com> spewed forth:

> identity is for version 1, right? did I mis-interpret the doc?
> Or that the key generation has nothing to do with protocol version?
> when I used identity, I also set my putty to use version 1 protocol.
> 
> "David A. Bandel" wrote:
> > 
> > OK, time to understand what you're doing.  -t rsa creates an ssh2 rsa
> > key. This is not standard.  Try this: ssh-keygen
> 
> putty said the dsa key was not secure. So I thought I should use rsa.
> that's why I used ssh-keygen -t rsa

I don't think many folks could crack either one.  But I have an aversion
to RSA.

> (putty also claimed that newer version of openssh used authorized_keys
> only. I don't want to bet on that)

Hmm.  The latest version I have (3.0.2) uses authorized_keys2.  I have no
clue what putty uses.

>  
> > For ssh2, try:
> > ssh-keygen -t dsa
> > let it save that to id_dsa and id_dsa.pub.  then id_dsa.pub is copied
> > to the other system to authorized_keys2 (not authorized_keys).  You
> > can
> 
> should I tick "version 2" in putty?
> actually, I tried using id_dsa, but failed.

It's possible DSA is not supported on Windoze.

> 
> > substitute id_rsa.pub into authorized_keys2 if you want, but not all
> > systems will recognize this (and it's not as good as dsa).
> 
Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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