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Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #109343] ssh known_hosts conflicts svn an


From: Ineiev
Subject: Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #109343] ssh known_hosts conflicts svn and git
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:17:45 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:06:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> * The old vcs RSA and DSA keys are only 1024 bits.  That is too short
> these days.
...
> We could decide to invalidate the old 1024 RSA host keys and force
> everyone into this problem now.  Invalidating the old 1024 bit RSA
> keys would force the issue upon everyone all at once.

Correction: upon everyone who doesn't use the ECC keys yet.

> It would be
> similarly to smacking everyone with a cast iron frying pan.

If those keys are inadequate, they should be dropped. it looks like
some users start having issues with the current configuration, anyway.

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