On 8 October 2015 at 04:58, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015, at 19:38, Tim Peters wrote: >> [Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>] >> > As a followup to this, I have now removed all DSA keys. People who only >> > had DSA keys will need to submit new keys to hgaccounts@. >> >> That apparently was addressed to me - cool ;-) >> >> Just noting that the Windows section of the devguide: >> >> https://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html >> >> should probably be changed to say something other than the current: >> >> Use PuTTYgen to generate your public key. Choose the >> “SSH2 DSA” radio button, >> >> That may be a clue as to why Windows devs generated DSA keys to begin >> with ;-) >> >> PuTTYgen also has a "SSH-2 RSA" radio button, and #-of-bits box into >> which 4096 can be typed. > > Thank you. I updated the page with exactly you suggest yesterday. The > automatic doc building process unfortunately hadn't run yet.
Something to watch in the future is MS's efforts to port OpenSSH to Windows: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update.aspx As that stabilises, it may be worth offering common OpenSSH based instructions for Windows as well. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
