Inconsistency between legacy and release notes?

[Pedro Melo]

Hi

On 28/11/16 00:14, "dtucker at dtucker.net on behalf of Darren Tucker" <dtucker at dtucker.net on behalf of dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:

    On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Alexander Wuerstlein <arw at cs.fau.de> wrote:
    [...]
    > Afaik its because DSA key size has (for very weird reasons admittedly:
    > FIPS 186-4) been limited to 1024 bits which is considered weak nowadays.
    
    Use of DSA within the SSH protocol requires the use of SHA1, which is
    160 bits (80 bits against a birthday attack) and is reaching its
    use-by date.  This is probably why FIPS requires stronger hashes for
    DSA key sizes >1k, but those can't be used in SSH because it specifies
    only SHA1.
    
    There's some more info in https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647

My initial email was not about why DSA was deprecated (although I do appreciate the reasons, thank you), but more about the fact that this deprecation is not mentioned on the OpenSSH release notes, so I would argue that DSA was not in fact deprecated…

I think mentioning on the next release release notes would be important to make it official.

Thank you,