Use other hash than SHA-1

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Mon May 4 19:31:45 CEST 2009


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

Raimar Sandner escribió:
> On Monday 04 May 2009 04:56:24 David Shaw wrote:
> 
>> If you want a DSA2 key:
>>
>>    gpg --enable-dsa2 --gen-key
>>
>> Select option 1, and enter 3072 for the DSA key size.  
> 
> 
>> If you want an RSA key:
>>
>>   gpg --cert-digest-algo sha256 --gen-key
>>
>> Select option 5.  Enter a RSA key size.  The default (2048) is fine.
> 
> Why do you recommend the DSA2 signing key to be larger than the RSA signing 
> key?

  Good question, indeed.

  Best Regards
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJJ/yaBAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAoaUH/iTplZ9vWA1E7JGpPx8moX8v
SDeDHQ4RQmplbgxw29WUz0RnQtZBFHO4lE/O3GohMzN6qaekhGgMdrFzgC/AlhUp
nyqlSCDjDO/K4kXEUYRz2eUv0gA5ZGyEKdlWCBKqYaQfZoJHhYPkvhtYnzAtX3sP
FAPNPGBGysAh2vobq9QCHBmBVDhyTyegCppm6LDsuTnG0KyR2E9oTd1L/0ughHVe
i+d31WU3QOrFSNk4mNurxX4NSaGInZOXv+l09kL4RWxjl5EgF0o7AtwE9IVzpPcu
pMVHoLDe6m34Dt4IPQWa8e45Ph2e/VzASh5yBo/xDPVK8btewSMq7kpGimGT6tY=
=TfeB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



More information about the Gnupg-users mailing list