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Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Nov 16 08:21:43 EST 2000


Hi,

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:20:04PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:49:41PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> > I can somewhat understand the RSA/DSA issue (RSA patent?) but having a
> > third key, RSA again but incompatible to ssh1 makes this really confusing.
> 
> RSA keys are used for different operations in SSH1 vs. SSH2 (encrypt
> vs. sign) and you should _not_ use the same key for both operations.

Hmmm.  How does ssh1 signature operations?  (I'm asking because I'm
curious).

gert

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