On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:52 PM, brian m. carlson <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> Because it's also used to sign other people's keys. Using a very large > key (for 256-bit equivalence, ~15kbits) makes verification so slow as to > be unusable. You have to not only verify signatures on other keys but > also the signatures on the subkeys. That was what I hadn't thought about. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
