On 10/12/10 12:41 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Donnerstag 09 Dezember 2010 07:14:53 schrieb Ben McGinnes: >> Hello, >> I am giving very serious thought to creating new keys and >> doing a (long-term) transition to them. This is partly to respond to >> known flaws with SHA-1 and take advantage of SHA-256 and higher. > > What is the relation between a key and the hashing algorithms?
The current key is DSA/Elgamal > In case of doubt choose RSA. It's the only one you can use with the > g10 smartcard. That would matter if I had/used smartcards, but I don't so it doesn't. I prefer to simply have complete physical control over any system which my secret keys are installed on. >> 1) I've forgotten how GPG handles the subkeys, does it choose the >> strongest key or the newest key by default or does it encrypt to all >> active (non-revoked or non-expired) subkeys? > > It chooses the newest subkey. Excellent. I had a nagging feeling that that was right, thanks for confirming it. Regards, Ben
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