Re: Openssh

Darren Tucker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:59:39PM -0400, Pan, Kui wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Not quite sure this is the right email address for openssh questions. If
> it's not, please kindly forward this email to the right people. Thanks.

The correct place is [email protected] (reply-to set).

> I'm compiling the Openssh4.4p1 and I'm getting the warning messages
> below. I'm using openssl 0.9.8c and zlib 1.2.3
> 
> configure: error: *** zlib too old - check config.log ***

There's a good chance that you have an older zlib on your system that
is being found first.  config.log will tell you what it found (look for
"found zlib version").

> One more question. Since Opnessh 4.3, I cannot generate 2048 bit RSA
> key, why's that?
> 
> # ./ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t dsa -N ""
> DSA keys must be 1024 bits

That's a DSA key not an RSA key, and ssh-keygen won't let you generate
them because the spec (FIPS 186-2) doesn't allow them.  If you want keys
larger than 1024 bits then use RSA.

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