Hi, On Tuesday 20 May 2008 04:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hopefully this doesn't mean that the _private_ DSA key can be > compromised if the _public_ key was copied on a Debian/Ubuntu machine.
Not by copying to, but by using with, yes, unfortunatly. Read http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2008-05-14-17-21_some_maths.html - in short, if the randomness is not really random, DSA can be attacked rather easily. That's why debian.org and freedesktop.org don't allow DSA keys at all anymore. regards, Holger
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