RSA/DSA questions

Damian Gerow dgerow at afflictions.org
Fri May 23 10:17:06 PDT 2003


Thus spake Dave Howe (DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk) [23/05/03 13:09]:
> Damian Gerow wrote:
> > PuTTY recommends you avoid DSA, which was a bit of a
> > surprise to me, and prompted this thus-far fruitless search for
> > comparisons/critiques. 
> This is no longer true - link:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#A.7.3

>From which I quote:

    "For this reason we now believe PuTTY's DSA implementation is probably
    OK. However, if you have the choice, we still recommend you use RSA
    instead."





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