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The backdoor appears to specifically target RSA public key authentication, so they must have had a target in mind that they know uses RSA keys.
I would highly recommend Curve25519, etc., just because such keys are faster and less common than RSA public-private keys in today's world. RSA 2048-bit keys are considered weak today, while the Curve25519 256-bit keys remain stronger. Also, the ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher has an interesting backstory and doesn't necessarily need hardware acceleration (which, in theory, could be borked by the HW-vendor) to obtain good performance.
Unfortunately, some SSH front-ends don't play nice with Curve25519 public-private keys yet... (I'm pointing at the putty SSH client, but that may have improved from the last time I had to use it)
It would be Ed25519 for SSH:
Would another less complex answer simply be that many (most?) people and organizations use RSA because it was first and elliptic signing is not yet as prevalent?
Going with Occam’s Razor here…
Woosh? (Probably)
I genuinely don’t understand if I missed something here, and would love more explanation.
I'm assuming the original post you replied to was meant to be a joke, since, like you pointed out, many or most people use RSA. I assume (using Occam's Razor) that is more likely than them not knowing that and intending their post at face value.
It’s the 46 upvotes that have me concerned that many people do not in fact see it as a joke