[patch] ssh-keygen(1): generate Ed25519 keys when invoked without arguments

Thorsten Glaser t.glaser at tarent.de
Wed Sep 6 12:51:13 AEST 2023


On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, Damien Miller wrote:

>This is irrelevant to the choice of the default algorithm. OpenSSH
>includes

Not everywhere. People can remove that from their builds.

> this code (written by Matt Dempsky, not djb) regardless of

It’s not, it clearly says DJB in the source (e.g. ed25519.c).

>Anyway, Job's change has been committed and the default will be
>ed25519 in OpenSSH 9.5.

I register protest (this will make it even harder to get people
to use RSA keys) but I acknowledge that continuing will not lead
anywhere.

bye,
//mirabilos
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