Re: rsa 4096 or ed25519 for ssh keys ?

2017-10-17 Thread Joel Carnat
Le 16/10/2017 19:46, Mike Coddington a écrit : On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:34PM +0200, Joel Carnat wrote: Hi, If both server and client are ed25519 compatible. When generating (user) SSH keys, is it recommended to use ed25519 rather than rsa 4096bits? AFAIK, either would be fine. I belie

Re: rsa 4096 or ed25519 for ssh keys ?

2017-10-16 Thread Mike Coddington
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:34PM +0200, Joel Carnat wrote: > Hi, > > If both server and client are ed25519 compatible. > When generating (user) SSH keys, is it recommended to use ed25519 rather > than rsa 4096bits? > AFAIK, either would be fine. I believe ED25519 is more CPU-intensive, so if t

Re: rsa 4096 or ed25519 for ssh keys ?

2017-10-16 Thread Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD"
Yes, of course. Or RSA with option -o to use PKBDF and option -a to specify numbers rounds (16, by defaults; 64, as paranoid), if you want to continue using RSA. Le 10/16/17 à 17:29, Joel Carnat a écrit : > Hi, > > If both server and client are ed25519 compatible. > When generating (user) SSH ke

rsa 4096 or ed25519 for ssh keys ?

2017-10-16 Thread Joel Carnat
Hi, If both server and client are ed25519 compatible. When generating (user) SSH keys, is it recommended to use ed25519 rather than rsa 4096bits? Thank you.