[python-committers] Weak SSH keys

Skip Montanaro skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 18:34:36 CEST 2015


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure how the order is determined; it's probably arbitrary for OpenSSH.

Certainly you wouldn't want it to offer a key generated by a system it
knows to be weaker before one generated by a known stronger system? I
would hope the OpenSSH authors had some idea which were relatively
stronger, so it could offer them first.

Skip


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