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[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:56:25AM +0900, sen_ml at eccosys.com 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.
> 
> iirc, no more rsa patent, so imo that's not the reason.  i don't know
> the reason for a second type of rsa key.  perhaps that has already been
> mentioned or will be touched upon.

I hope so.

> however, concerning multiple public key algorithm choice, consider the
> following scenario...one day you wake up to find that rsa algorithm
> has been broken.  what are you going to do?  oh look, we've also got
> the choice of using dsa.  good thing we're able to use alternative
> algorithms in our protocol!  ;-)

Well, I have no problem with having a *choice* of adding a second key to
enable another algorithm.

My gripe is being *forced* to create multiple different host keys (or 
disable protocol 2).

gert

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