SSH DSA logins on crank.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri May 23 13:17:32 EDT 2008


Hi,

On 23.05.2008 17:16, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:06, Chris Ball wrote:
>   
>> Yes.  We have the openssh-blacklist package installed, which contains
>> keyhashes of all possible weak keys and disallows logins using them.
>>     
>
> AFAIK not all possible weak keys, but only for the most popular arches and 
> (definitly only) the popular key lengths.
>   

Holger is right about the blacklist being a useful strict subset of all
weak keys.
The good news is that ssh_keygen only allows 1024 bit DSA keys (the man
page says: "DSA keys must be exactly 1024 bits as specified by FIPS
186-2.").

Regards,
Carl-Daniel



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