multiple subkeys and key transition

[Grant Olson]

On 12/9/10 8:41 AM, Hauke Laging wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 09 Dezember 2010 07:14:53 schrieb Ben McGinnes:
>> Hello,
>> 	I am giving very serious thought to creating new keys and
>> doing a (long-term) transition to them.  This is partly to respond to
>> known flaws with SHA-1 and take advantage of SHA-256 and higher.
> 
> What is the relation between a key and the hashing algorithms?
> 
> 

Right.  If the hash algo is your only concern, you can just change that.
 No need to regenerate a key, unless you're just using that as an
motivator to bump up your key-size and/or create an offline primary key.

Regarding RSA vs DSA/ElGamal, without having done any research at all,
I'm assuming the defaults in GPG changed from DSA/ElGamal to RSA/RSA for
a reason, so I went with the latter.

And apologies, because I know you said you have no intention of using a
smartcard (twice), but if you're creating a key for the next ten years
then it's possible you'll change your mind say five years from now.

-- 
Grant

"I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war."

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