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[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

id_rsa shouldn't exist any more.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fact of the matter is RSA is perfectly secure still...and ECDSA/ED25519 should also be extinct given the rising need for post quantum cryptography

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The problem is not the RSA math itself but that it is both extremely slow and implementing it is particularly susceptible to bugs and side channel attacks https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/