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Sami_Lehtinen on June 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't Even Think of Using Encryption Software to E...

I've been using PGP from early 90s and most of my friends use it actively too. Just set it up once and after that it's seamless.

Btw. It's time to upgrade the DSA signing key to longer RSA key. Soon GnuPG should have ECC support allowing much shorter keys.

mpyne on June 25, 2013 [–]

The was upgraded in 2009 to 4096-bit RSA. In fact I believe hearing of the vuln in DSA-based digital signatures was what led me to do the replacement.

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