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submitted 11 months ago by 1c34@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

i want to remotely ssh to my home server, and I was wondering if I could just forward port 22 with disabling password login and use pubkey authentication will be safe enough?

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[-] Beastmind@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Also don't use rsa, use Ed25519 nowadays

[-] upofadown@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

RSA is fine. It isn't like you will have to worry about the length of the keys for SSH.

[-] mr_whats_it_to_you@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well it‘s true that one can use RSA, which is still save with keys big enough, but if someone wants so save some extra computing power and time ed25519 is the way to go.

[-] dumbasPL@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The difference is extremely tiny because asymmetric encryption is only used at the very beginning to securely establish a symmetric key that will be used for everything else afterwards. So you would have to be running this on a smart fridge to notice the speed difference.

[-] mr_whats_it_to_you@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago
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