[python-committers] PSA: replace your DSA keys for SSH

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015, at 19:38, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>]
> > As a followup to this, I have now removed all DSA keys. People who only
> > had DSA keys will need to submit new keys to hgaccounts at .
> 
> That apparently was addressed to me - cool ;-)
> 
> Just noting that the Windows section of the devguide:
> 
>     https://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html
> 
> should probably be changed to say something other than the current:
> 
>     Use PuTTYgen to generate your public key. Choose the
>     “SSH2 DSA” radio button,
> 
> That may be a clue as to why Windows devs generated DSA keys to begin
> with ;-)
> 
> PuTTYgen also has a "SSH-2 RSA" radio button, and #-of-bits box into
> which 4096 can be typed.

Thank you. I updated the page with exactly you suggest yesterday. The
automatic doc building process unfortunately hadn't run yet.