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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