Wow. The key this made for me is so much nicer than my old key. I see what they mean about the high-quality entropy. Those crazy Germans do everything better. It seems like SSH runs much faster with the optimized keys, and with such good entropy nobody will ever guess my key.
Please get the key exchange functionality working soon, so I can trade in all of my old homemade keys for new ones.
One thing, though - I noticed the new key isn't very compressible, it would be cool if you could tweak the entropy generator so that the new keys could be compressed with ZIP or whatever so they don't take up as much space on disk as the old ones - or maybe there's a way you could make the keys smaller. With really random entropy it seems like you could probably use smaller keys and the security would be the same.
Thank you for your suggestions. I can assure you that we are working very hard to get the key exchange working as soon as possible. The recycling of used keys is no easy process, but I am sure we will get proper results soon.
One more thing: Is it okay for you if we use part of your comment for our early-tester testimonials?
What? Why would I ever pay someone else to generate crypto tokens for me? This is a slap in the face to every safety procedure surrounding private keys. A key escrow is bad juju.
[+] [-] blakdawg|9 years ago|reply
Please get the key exchange functionality working soon, so I can trade in all of my old homemade keys for new ones.
One thing, though - I noticed the new key isn't very compressible, it would be cool if you could tweak the entropy generator so that the new keys could be compressed with ZIP or whatever so they don't take up as much space on disk as the old ones - or maybe there's a way you could make the keys smaller. With really random entropy it seems like you could probably use smaller keys and the security would be the same.
[+] [-] privatekeys|9 years ago|reply
One more thing: Is it okay for you if we use part of your comment for our early-tester testimonials?
[+] [-] davenull|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] transitorykris|9 years ago|reply
It does raise a real question about how to make key management better. It's still not safe for many people.