-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On 6/24/2014 10:52 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I recently, generated a new keypair (GPG4win), and the defaults >> presented where RSA/2048. I did, some digging around on the RSA >> vs DSA thing and RSA still seems to be the recommended way to go, >> the only thing I did was up my key size to 4096 I left all the >> other defaults..... > > This depends on what you mean by recommended, and why. The last > time I checked it wasn't possible to use DSA2 keys to sign a Linux > RPM file, for instance. Likewise, there are smartcards that don't > support DSA2, and so on. > > But if you're not using one of those niche applications then > there's really not much difference worth mentioning between RSA2048 > and DSA2048. :) yea, compatibility is a big issue from what I understand RSA is far more compatible than DSA is. which is why i use an RSA key, though a larger key.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTqcVvAAoJEBr/3kncCBhngAUQAJpQEC6EeIT3+Krid4cJw8V5 yP7GdbY/8KryB+azI5usZ0AIsSJLJpQiNK1OlqDvWJohUv6GXcymnO5f0LnUj4Hx fAdCD7vTDrt55G41rLf+EQAkJz41Cvub/psjErdAerzv8T9Ij7CilAos29iuXv3f 5yRYbsr/uo/65bXFAi+9+2/caAdcXpSVV3y87JWwIVizVQtz1q4lu4AT0IItLTE6 ZC/+gbXe9rlCr0Mkm54rV/aaj9OuWNwDxTl1w3PAfZ1LJx2AijHWtKqfcQ5Rq0Sf 4a4l9TAMg9UqO1sYmXl/331sqNXu7PyVSNKAzDsO+5qAa//1oUgHmsHeFS1ufNp1 LoeqpN5oT8+AkwGGYjEi+tbQQg20fk0Yp+o9SX3tvXt+1TLRf2I1EOUNcG30cRyF a27xgz7o1nSqqFTjkDLKHzDm7sKvkJBMoKsC5dJM5qGBVahQr1a1+8rCrgoFmFd/ MJFWHc2dSUNHuRzAe8CZdkX6RasHyjHjHSpdoumDAYBJ7/DTOl6OjRUgHqn6hiW8 432UoC/AnUf4lLu9LZFIJNJyeGvF2tq8mYM29wYxFJgdL9yPKMGW7rc1cBtVZATF KG4HQ3pHe3KAP6HU36svic+n3GOzxrfNY8B1SCga3GhnyJaiJASyA21zSJmHQva7 EM0rNArXQ4xD2vrz+o0H =upNz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
