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? > At the moment I am planning on using an RSA signing key, but I have > not made my final decision on the encryption subkeys. I am leaning > towards Elgamal, but that's by no means certain. In case of doubt choose RSA. It's the only one you can use with the g10 smartcard. > 1) I've forgotten how GPG handles the subkeys, does it choose the > strongest key or the newest key by default or does it encrypt to all > active (non-revoked or non-expired) subkeys? It chooses the newest subkey. Hauke -- PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814
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