Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-13 Thread Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
Le 13.05.20 à 11:54, Damien Goutte-Gattat a écrit : On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users wrote: RJH's answer sounds like a good piece of advice, but still, at the end, we HAVE to to choose which algorithm to use when creating new key pairs. No you

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-13 Thread Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
will now know what I am doing when I'll use the defaults! :) Sylvain ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-13 Thread Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
able to read or verify stuff that I encrypt and signs? Would it be because they use older versions or because some software programs don't implement Curve 25519? I guess that Curve 25519 is mentioned in the IETF standard, isn't it? Many thanks, Best, Sylvain ___

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
Best, Sylvain ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: anthropological research on OpenPGP

2019-06-26 Thread BESENCON Sylvain via Gnupg-users
Oh no!! I'm terrible, I have just discovered that I have sent this mail to the whole mailing list. Sorry to all of you for the inconvenience... However, this might also be an opportunity for me to send my call to the whole community. Le 26.06.19 à 11:47, BESENCON Sylvain via Gnupg-users a

anthropological research on OpenPGP

2019-06-26 Thread BESENCON Sylvain via Gnupg-users
Dear Daniel Kahn Gillmor, My name is Sylvain Besençon, I am an anthropologist from the university of Fribourg, Switzerland, and I am doing a research for my PhD on the maintenance work of OpenPGP implementations, not from a technical point of view but rather from a socio-historical perspective

Re: 2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian [doc patch]

2013-10-27 Thread Sylvain
Hi, On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:29:26PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 10/26/2013 3:40 PM, Sylvain wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. To foster spending less time on these > > discussions, how about this? :) > > Hi! I'm the quasi-official FAQ maintainer. You can

Re: 2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian [doc patch]

2013-10-26 Thread Sylvain
+use to audit the used software (firmware, OS, libs, apps), which +often are the weak link of the security chain. ** Why does it sometimes take so long to create keys? :PROPERTIES: Cheers! Sylvain ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnu

Re: 2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian

2013-10-26 Thread Sylvain
reasons to do so? Well I've heard that in security, more bits isn't necessarily more secure, depending on the algorithm. Plus, following this principle, why doesn't gnupg default to 4096 if there isn't any reason not to? I would suppose that if gnupg defaults to 2048,

2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian

2013-10-24 Thread Sylvain
Hi, I saw a lot of activity in the Debian project about upgrading to a 4096 RSA key, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg3.html However GnuPG's default is 2048. Is this zealotry on the Debian front, or something to update in gnupg? Cheers! Sy