why no DSA support?

Farrell Aultman fja0568 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 00:54:47 WST 2008


They are called DSS in dropbear.  DSA and DSS are the same thing.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Alejandro Mery <amery at opensde.org> wrote:

> Quentin Arce escribió:
> > I'm sure this is noted some place.  I couldn't find why in the source /
> doc / google.  So, why doesn't dropbear support DSA keys?
> Hi Quentin,
> dropbear does support them
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm>.
>
> $ dropbearkey
> Must specify a key filename
> Usage: dropbearkey -t <type> -f <filename> [-s bits]
> Options are:
> -t type    Type of key to generate. One of:
>        rsa
>        dss
> -f filename    Use filename for the secret key
> -s bits    Key size in bits, should be a multiple of 8 (optional)
>           (DSS has a fixed size of 1024 bits)
> -y        Just print the publickey and fingerprint for the
>        private key in <filename>.
>
>
> Regards,
> Alejandro Mery
>
>
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