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Re: ssh version 2 and ssh-keygen



Ari Pollak <compwiz@aripollak.com> writes:

> Hi, I was about to file a minor bug against the ssh package, but I
> thought I'd throw this out to the community to see what the course of
> action should be. The current OpenSSH package in sid defaults to using
> version 2 for connecting to remote hosts. However, ssh-keygen defaults
> to using version 1 RSA. Since everything else defaults to version 2,
> shouldn't ssh-keygen do so as well?

That default is what upstream ship with. I have to admit it seems a
little strange to me. I'll ask their mailing list what the rationale
is.

Matthew
Debian SSH maintainer
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