Re: New ssh key after upgrading Debian Testing last Monday :-(

[Toon Moene <toon@moene.org>]

On 12/24/2015 01:08 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>> Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> writes:
>>
>>> I upgraded my Debian Testing system last Monday and am now suffering
>>> of a OpenSSH installation that doesn't support rsa or dsa anymore.
>>>
>>> This is my new ssh key:
>>>
>>> ssh-ed25519
>>> AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHF5qpRBrdnA7FWzBt7u91Iz9Kokwu0ZvvftWzJMGLNo
>>> toon@moene.org
>>
>> That can't be right, it's too short.  Try sending your key as an
>> attachment.
>
> Ed25519 public keys are only 32 bytes.  See <http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/>.  I
> don't know whether sourceware has a recent enough OpenSSH version to
> support Ed25519, however.

I was surprised at the shortness of the key, too. However, it works 
between my laptop and my PC (both upgraded to Debian Testing as-of 
20151221) *and* my workstation at work (which is Fedora 21) and my PC.

So if it doesn't work with gcc.gnu.org, perhaps *that* system is too old :-)

Thanks,

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