On Tue,  5 Jun 2018 19:52, [email protected] said:

> I've used this key for a *hell* of a long time, and generating a new key
> pair is simply out of the question. I'm looking for new suggestions as

... and maybe others used your private key as well.

A 512 bit DSA key has way too low security properties that it is or has
ever been of any use.  I don't know how you created this key in
(probably) 2008 because such low key sizes were never supported by GnuPG
or PGP.  The 4096 bit RSA encryption subkey is state of the art but you
should not consider that it is reliable bound to your user id and the
primary key.

I would strongly suggest to immediately create a new key using default
parameters and revoke the old key.  For decrypting old mails you may
want to add the subkey of the current key to another key (either the new
one or a separate dummy key).


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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