ed25519 and sha256

2019-09-25 Thread Robert Hübener via Gnupg-users
Hello, I have a question regarding ed25519 as implemented in gnupg 2.2.17, libgcrypt 1.8.4. Let’s say I sign a file. When checking the signature with verbose output, I can see that sha256 was used gpg: binary signature, digest algorithm SHA256, key algorithm ed25519 According to Wikipedia "Ed

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hübener
In my view, gnupg already offers too much choice. There is no real reason to have so many options. They should have given 2 to chose from - a small and fast and a large and slow (both sort of balanced, too), say a) DSA-1024 (SHA1) & Elgamal-1024, cipher 3DES - fingerprint SHA1 and b) DSA-3072 (S

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Hübener
Andrew Berg wrote: > Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of > megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt > messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but > if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice unless a