Subject: bug#44887: closed (Re: bug#44887: openssh service creates DSA keys)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:12:02 +0000

Your bug report

#44887: openssh service creates DSA keys

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#44887: openssh service creates DSA keys
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Vincent Legoll <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>, Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:10:39 -0400
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Hi,

Vincent Legoll <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> It looks like openssh, at some point in the past <period-of-time>,
>> stopped creating host DSA keys by default. Given the original bug report
>> was that DSA keys were created by default and now they're not I think we
>> can close this bug now.
>>
>> Any objections?
>
> This is also my opinion

Super, doing so.  This is the best kind of resolution ;-).

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Subject: openssh service creates DSA keys
From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:14:03 +0200
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In the interest of protecting users we should probably not create DCA
keys by default. That would leave us with RSA, ECDSA and ED25519.

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