OpenSSH: New ciphers, key types, and key formats in RHEL7

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New key type: Ed25519

The OpenSSH 6.6 introduced a new key type Ed25519 based on elliptic curves which offers better security than ECDSA and DSA and also good performance. These keys are little bit specific so I will present here few examples of usage:

The new ed25519 identity key pair can be generated using this command:

# ssh-keygen -t ...

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