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Re: Need a tutorial



On Thursday 22 September 2016 12:04:21 Lars Noodén wrote:

> On 09/22/2016 06:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Can ssh-keygen make the newer ones above? I see in a key acceptance
> > conversation that it apparently can do the ecdsa. So maybe I
> > shouldn't worry.
>
> The -t option sets the key type that ssh-keygen will make.  These days
> it you can choose from DSA, ECDSA, RSA, or Ed25519.  Any except DSA
> ought to be ok.  If you run into a dongle or helper application which
> has trouble with Ed25519, then you could file a bug report and ug make
> an RSA key (with enough bits) for that one instead.
>
> Regards,
> Lars
Thanks Lars

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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