Re: ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

2003-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > Corinna, > > do you have any reference for this? There has been discussion about this on the openssh-unix-dev mailing list. Basically RSA is a better choice when the source of random numbers is suspect. A description of this p

Re: ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Corinna, do you have any reference for this? Unless this is something inherent in the ssh protocol or its implementation, which I'm not familiar with, I'm not aware that crypto systems based on discrete logarithms (DSA) are less secure than those based on factoring large integers (RSA). FWIW:

Re: ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

2003-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:40:58PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to make ssh ask me for a passphrase when I slogin to another > machine, instead of asking me for my password on that machine. With no > luck. > > It always asks me for my password. If I modify /etc/ssh_config to set

ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

2003-09-19 Thread luke . kendall
I'm trying to make ssh ask me for a passphrase when I slogin to another machine, instead of asking me for my password on that machine. With no luck. It always asks me for my password. If I modify /etc/ssh_config to set password authentication to "no", then slogin simply fails without asking me f