I only have a DSA keypair. Can I ssh then?

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Hello everybody,

at school I learnt that DSA, i.e. Digital Signature Algorithm, is a
publick key cryptography algorithm meant to produce the digital
signature
to a given piece of data.

Which is, a DSA keypair can't be used for encryption, just for
signing.

From "SSH, the Secure Shell -- The Definitive Guide", 2nd edition,
by Daniel J. Barrett et al., page 85,

"
[DSA] It is designed as a signature-only scheme that can’t be used
for encryption, although a fully general implementation
may easily perform both RSA and ElGamal encryption."

and at page 86:

"
The SSH-2 protocol uses DSA as its required (and currently, only
defined)
public-key algorithm for host identification."

So here is my question:
let's say that Mrs Alice has only a DSA keypair, and no RSA keypair.

Would her be able to log remotely to a machine via SSH?

Best regards,
Giovanni Gherdovich
.

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