My current certificate, 0x23806BE5D6B98E10, dates to 2008.  Back then I
used the bog-standard defaults for new certificates: namely, a 2kbit
DSA2 signing key with a 2kbit Elgamal encryption subkey.  These were
good choices then and are still solid choices today: if you're using
that setup, please don't panic and please don't think you need to
change.  You don't.

However.  Time moves on, and things that made sense back then don't make
as much sense today.  In 2008 I didn't realize how important smartcards
would become, or how reluctant smartcard vendors would be to support
DSA2.  I also expected, perhaps foolishly, that the Fedora operating
system would soon support signing software packages with DSA2; I was
mistaken.

Over time I've accumulated more certificates for various testing
purposes.  To test Enigmail's smartcard support I had a 2kbit RSA key on
a smartcard; to test GnuPG's new ECC support I had a 512-bit ECDSA
certificate; the list goes on and on.  So, looking out over all this, I
figured now was a good time to make a switch to a newly-generated
certificate: 0x1DCBDC01B44427C7, which is going to become my all-in-one
replacement -- I can store it on a smartcard, use it to sign Fedora
packages, and have better long-term confidence in its security.

The old certificate is still good and I'll continue to support it for
about another six months.  Early next year I'll retire it and the
switchover will be complete.  Until then, you'll be able to see that my
messages are signed with *two* certificates -- my usual certificate and
my new one.  It's my hope that this will give people confidence in the
continuity of identity.

(Note that Enigmail will probably only show one signature in the UI.  To
get a full list you'll need to extract the PGP/MIME components, save
them to disk, and run GnuPG at the command-line to get a complete list
of which certificates have signed a message.)

If anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to ask.  :)

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