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by josephcsible 1233 days ago
That change isn't actually about RSA vs. ECC. It's about SHA-1 vs. SHA-2. The default configuration still supports using your existing RSA keys, but with a different hashing algorithm (with the options rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512). That configuration change allows use of SHA-1 to continue.