OpenSSH is about to change. (For the better.)

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OpenSSH's ssh-keygen command just got a great upgrade.

New video from @vkc@mspsocial.net

Edit:

She has a peertube channel: !veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube and it federatess as a Lemmy Community

The Peertube video in Lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/8842820

Link to the video in your instance.

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It says that

Starting in 2014, OpenSSH defaults to Curve25519-based ECDH.

So what changed recently? (I didn't watch the video, in fairness).

ssh-keygen now defaults to ed25519 so you don't have to do ssh-keygen -t ed25519 anymore. The default since 2014 is for key exchange when connecting.