Hi,
Earlier this year, there was announced a fairly serious attack
against the SHA1 digest algorithm (at eurocrypt), and the general
consensus is that we should be "moving in an orderly fashion toward the
theater exits," deprecating SHA-1 where possible with an eye toward
abandoning it soon (federal agencies have been directed to cease all
reliance on SHA-1 by the end of 2010).
Given that, it is time to migrate off the old 1024-bit DSA keys,
and migrate to newer 2048 or even 4096 bit RSA key-pairs, and then of
course one has to regenerate the web of trust thing.
Are there enough of us in the area to make a social key
signing/beer/pizza event? I can help organize the event, if there is
interest. And I'd love to get together with folks again; I have not
been coming over very frequently at all to the meetings.
manoj
1. http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html
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The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up at
the steam fitters' picnic.
Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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