Entropy and DSA key

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Wed Nov 7 06:16:06 EST 2001


On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:06:41PM -0500, Dan Astoorian wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 13:21:02 EST, Dave Dykstra writes:
> > I was with you until that point.  It's essential for me that the seed file
> > be able to be kept per user because I have no way of installing a
> > privileged program on most of the computers in my distribution.  This is the
> > way ssh 1.2.27 did it.
> 
> That's not the situation for most users.  I don't know many people who
> can install sshd without at least some administrative privileges.

Right, but I have a lot of users of the ssh client that don't have sshd
installed on their systems.

- Dave Dykstra



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