default option for ssh-keygen

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Nov 13 20:37:25 EST 2001


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:25:23PM +0900, NONAKA Akira wrote:
> > i think -t rsa will be the default, or there will be no default at all.
> 
> Currently(2.9p2)  -t rsa1 is default for ssh-keygen and I believe it is for
> SSH-1.
> But SSH-2 is default for ssh client. Don't you think this is a little bit
> inconsistent?

sure, but backward compatbilty hurts.

DSA will not become the default, RSA (ssh2) should (if there
is a ne default).

-m



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