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Introduction

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RSA is the general standard for the following reasons,

  • Stronger key length as high as 2048 versus DSA which must be 1024
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Particularly if your system is available through ssh on the Internet key based authentication should be considered.

We use RSA because of the stronger key length of 2048. DSA can only be 1024.

Determine version of Open SSH installed,

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