Disabling Dropbear ssh-rsa support?

[Bjørn Mork]

Paul Spooren via openwrt-devel <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org> writes:

> I’d like to merge an update of Dropbear which adds some post-quantum
> features[1]. At the current state, the patch also disables support
> `ssh-rsa` support, which seems like a good thing, however may break
> compatibility with some existing setups.

Is there a risk that someone sysupgrades a system with ssh only
management and password auth disabled, ending up with a "softbrick" due
to old keys suddenly being unsupported?

(Not really bricked of course, but re-gaining management access could be
hard once it's lost)


Bjørn