> What's the rationale for keeping RSA as a default these days?
I think they recently changed this, but for the longest time RSA keys were the only kind AWS supported for EC2 keypairs.
For staff that weren't deploying EC2 instances, EC keys were fine, but for the ops people setting them up where the EC2 keypair was the initial access key, they needed RSA keys.
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> What's the rationale for keeping RSA as a default these days?
I think they recently changed this, but for the longest time RSA keys were the only kind AWS supported for EC2 keypairs.
For staff that weren't deploying EC2 instances, EC keys were fine, but for the ops people setting them up where the EC2 keypair was the initial access key, they needed RSA keys.