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

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> writes:

> 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 :-)

Ah, OK, sorry.  Well, I installed it.  See if it works.

Ian