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by rakoo 2126 days ago
SSH is basically everywhere, and the key generation topic keeps coming regularly. At this point it probably deserves an entry in the Cryptographic Right Answers (https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...) to end debates once and for all
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While not explicitly pointed toward SSH, the "Asymmetric signatures" section covers this. Their recommendation is to use Ed25519 and avoid all other options mentioned in the article.
Such a mixed signal from that blog. At first it explained broken security, and then recommended I run only binaries passed down from God. Luckily I'm a believer in rational security and wouldn't run this program if I actually cared about security.