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OpenSSH announces DSA-removal timeline

For those of you still using DSA keys with SSH: the project has announced its plans to remove support for that algorithm around the beginning of 2025. The only remaining use of DSA at this point should be deeply legacy devices. As such, we no longer consider the costs of maintaining DSA in OpenSSH to be justified. Moreover, we hope that OpenSSH's final removal of this insecure algorithm accelerates its deprecation in other SSH implementations and allows maintainers of cryptography libraries to r...

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