[python-committers] SSH fingerprint

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

You missed that ECDSA != DSA.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2013, at 21:32 , Roger Serwy <roger.serwy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It looks like my ssh is using ECDSA as the host key algorithm by default. When I force it to use ssh-rsa, then I receive the same fingerprint you have.
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>> Should this be documented somewhere?
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> I believe RSA keys are generally recommended for SSH work.  You could add it to the developer's guide.  Another tip that may not be documented: to improve transfer speed, enable compression at the ssh level for the hg.python.org connection.  If you are using a Unix-y .ssh/config file, you can add it there to the host entry for hg.python.org.
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> http://serverfault.com/questions/40071/ssh-keypair-generation-rsa-or-dsa
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