Beginner generating a new key

2009-06-27 Thread Jesse Cheung
Hi folks, I'm just starting to learn about GnuPG. My question is: are there any problems with 3072D/4096g keys? I chose 3072bit DSA2 a few days ago because I didn't want to be constrained by 160 bit hash requirement of DSA. Given that DSA2 wasn't available in the default menu, and the "news" (pr

Exposing email addresses on key servers

2009-06-27 Thread Jesse Cheung
Dear all,   I learned that public keyservers are a good way for key exchanges. But I am still a little concerned: after all, the UID's contain my email addresses so by sending my keys up I am exposing my email address to everybody. I'm not sure if there are spammers out there doing all these key qu

Re: Exposing email addresses on key servers

2009-06-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jesse Cheung escribió: > Dear all, > I learned that public keyservers are a good way for key exchanges. > But I am still a little concerned: after all, the UID's contain my > email addresses so by sending my keys up I am exposing my email > address

Re: Exposing email addresses on key servers

2009-06-27 Thread Jesse Cheung
Gracias Faramir y Allen! On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Faramir wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Jesse Cheung escribió: >> Dear all, >>   I learned that public keyservers are a good way for key exchanges. >> But I am still a little concerned: after all, the UID's c

Re: Exposing email addresses on key servers

2009-06-27 Thread Jesse Cheung
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jesse Cheung wrote: > Gracias Faramir y Allen! >>  You can also use a freeform UID, which contains name and comment, but >> leave the email field empty. > Yeah I found it a good idea! BTW it seems the file format doesn't > really stop us from putting invalid email a