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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:30 pm Post subject: SSH dropping support for DSA |
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How can I check to see what type of SSH keys I'm using and switch to ed25519?
Code: | # eselect news read 33
2015-08-13-openssh-weak-keys
Title OpenSSH 7.0 disables ssh-dss keys by default
Author Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Posted 2015-08-13
Revision 1
Starting with the 7.0 release of OpenSSH, support for ssh-dss keys has
been disabled by default at runtime due to their inherit weakness. If
you rely on these key types, you will have to take corrective action or
risk being locked out.
Your best option is to generate new keys using strong algos such as rsa
or ecdsa or ed25519. RSA keys will give you the greatest portability
with other clients/servers while ed25519 will get you the best security
with OpenSSH (but requires recent versions of client & server).
If you are stuck with DSA keys, you can re-enable support locally by
updating your sshd_config and ~/.ssh/config files with lines like so:
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss
Be aware though that eventually OpenSSH will drop support for DSA keys
entirely, so this is only a stop gap solution.
More details can be found on OpenSSH's website:
http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html |
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YetiBarBar Guru
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 532
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Default id file is named by ssh using the scheme:
For example, I have two file in my ~/.ssh folder : id_rsa and id_ed22519
Another way to check this is to read the associated pub key.
Code: | me @ home (20:54) % cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCwT8HiKDIrPSLmxQT+zGtJZmLRDITEP0ZUyoYZY4JxWhLvIYUNVHy+As1DtYkUb6RPi0DgebccmblyktEjhobtG8w5k+B3Meoba3URUXHArhnJJTijhPgIEHkoQNjaNqloxdV2R/zsoha8h9E0Ae/UBU1rfJ8IoKqxZJhXx9y9a0u0dcClFA8WAtTxZiOzrukzMPTt7cRQccs7P6zR4POYwktuQQ4g5/Y2Pk0QEa50G4s3oI41p0OWPMK7F5FUSrRxhoKuJWfUfHyI+imbD1OmDJjUEfGEUG+0fszUSjKTXOOXMiFHfXYZwOlG9voXPj2hY+Jx2mXcZaQtSvPGCJo3 me@home |
Code: | me @ home (20:54) % cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIGCXOQAJ6+V6FBZVVvNsED9WZF3V6+2ZCzPtBDWf3032 me@home |
To generate a new key using ed22519 : Code: | ssh-keygen -t ed25519 |
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