[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: DSA Keys on Fencepost?

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:19:03PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>>       https://savannah.gnu.org/my/admin/editsshkeys.php
>>
>> I changed the text (and the example key).
>
> "Please use only RSA keys, not DSA keys."
>
> Would you mind justifying this (aka {{citation needed}}) ?
>
> The education goal of Savannah means we don't give orders, but explain
> advices :)

Saying "please" is not "giving orders".
If you really want to justify it, one hint that RSA is superior
is that ssh-keygen's default key type is now RSA, not DSA.

I searched for "DSA vs RSA" and found the following thread.
It is compelling.  Yet again, it references Steinar Gunderson's
"some maths" blog posting:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1220/focus=127931