Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

2011-10-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/1/2011 9:01 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm#Sensitivity This is an argument against having a *bad* DSA implementation, in the exact same way you shouldn't use a bad RSA implementation, either. RSA has just as many warning

Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

2011-10-01 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 01/10/11 18:51, brian m. carlson wrote: > Point being, both DSA and RSA have their good and bad points, and if > you're fairly confident that you have a good PRNG, such as /dev/urandom, > then there's not really much concern about k. After all, you also need > a good PRNG for CFB IVs as well, a

Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

2011-10-01 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:01:14AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Having a sufficient amount of paranoia, would keep you from using DSA, I > would think. I have an RSA key with RSA subkeys, but now that larger DSA keys are generally available, I'd be okay with revolving DSA signing subkeys. As you