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Re: Re-using RSA1 keys as RSA



On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:10:13PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> Is there a security issue with turning an RSA1 key into an RSA key?  One
> might want to do this, e.g., to move to protocol 2 without having to
> update authorized_keys files.

in protocol 1 rsa keys are used for encryption,
in protocol 2 they are used for signatures.



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