[ale] Best kind of ssh key

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:57 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> "incite" - Funny - was that intentional? 
> 
> I'll have to say that I think it isn't really a good point.  While PuTTY
> does run on Windoze it is not built by M$ and any issues it would have
> of the nature discussed would be the fault of the folks that wrote it.
> However, it you read the OP you see that the PuTTY folks are
> specifically stating that they believe their implementation of DSA is
> OK.  They're just saying that RSA doesn't have the randomness in the
> first place so wouldn't need to rely heavily on "good" implementation of
> the package authors.

Randomness and predictability are more likely OS issues than application
issues.  So, the best of applications, on a poor OS, could easily be
impacted.

-Jim P.