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Re: [Full-Disclosure] OpenSSHd - Publickey-Authentication - Has 3.9 problems with 16384Bit DSA-keys?



On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:54 +0100, vh wrote:
> I created a 16384-Bit DSA-Key and stored the public part of this key in
> ./ssh/authorized-keys. I'm able to login with a 4096Bit DSA-Key but the
> SSHd wont accapt the 16384Bit-Key and falls back to passwort
> authentication.

heh... I'm just curious: Why do you think a 4096 bit key is not
sufficient? 
And, don't you think the session setup of a 16K+ key would be
computationally expensive?

Frank

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