The OpenSSH Project has published a plan to deprecate DSA support.
The developers of the OpenSSH project have presented a plan to end support for keys based on the DSA algorithm. By modern standards, DSA keys do not provide the proper level of security, since they use a private key size of only 160 bits and a SHA1 hash, which in terms of security level corresponds to approximately an 80-bit symmetric key. The default use of DSA keys was discontinued in 2015, but support […]