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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by numpad0 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:54AM (#23359105)
RSA getting weaker

ECDSA suspected backdoored by NSA

EdDSA/Ed25519 like ECDSA but community made

RSA32768 might be okay but weird

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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by cryptonector on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:16PM (#23372805)
ECDSA isn't thought to be backdoored so much as designed on purpose to be very difficult to get right / very easy to get catastrophically wrong.
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