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Hello,

> This key may be revoked by DSA key 835DE1F5 [?]
> pub 1024D/7991C875 created: 2005-01-04  expires: never       usage: SC
>                     trust:       validity:
> sub 2048g/7E97A4F7 created: 2005-01-04  expires: never       usage: E
> (1). Basar Alabay <[email protected]>
> (2)  Basar Alabay <[email protected]>
> (3)  Basar Alabay <[email protected]>
> (4)  Basar Alabay <[email protected]>
> (5)  Basar Alabay <[email protected]>

Hm, this does not look very actual indeed. My own "gpg --edit-key 7991C875" 
shows some more addresses and one of these is revoked/deleted. And the 

> gpg> showpref

… is different too, all are set to:

     Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, RIPEMD160, SHA1
     Komprimierung: BZIP2, ZLIB, ZIP, nicht komprimiert
     Eigenschaften: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

> According to the above information, your signing key is your primary key:
> 1024D/7991C875 created: 2005-01-04  expires: never       usage: SC
> 
> If I am not wrong, with a 1024 bit DSA key, you cannot use SHA 256,  SHA512.

Would this mean my digest list above is wrong?

> If you want to keep this key (and not generate a new one, {which is not
> necessary), you can add a sign only subkey, RSA 2048 bits, that will
> give you the possibility of using SHA512.

I could also add an RSA 4096 sign only; I could do this with the GPG keychain 
utility.

Now is the question, what would be better, adding such a subkey or revoking? I 
also wonder if those deleted IDs will pass through the servers or not. If not, 
I guess I have to revoke them explicitly. But, is it possible to revoke an ID 
and later to reactivate it? Or would it be to create a new (old) ID with a 
reused mail address?

> As an example, this is how my own key A57A8EFA looks like in Terminal:
> ===========
> pub 1024D/A57A8EFA  created: 2002-02-11  expires: never    usage: SCA
>                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
> sub  2048g/CE3A0945  created: 2002-02-11  expires: never   usage: E
> sub  2048R/855B83EF  created: 2005-11-20  expires: never   usage: S
> ===========
> As you can see, the primary key was generated on February 11, 2002.
> The sign only subkey RSA2048 was added on November 20, 2005:
> sub  2048R/855B83EF  created: 2005-11-20  expires: never   usage: S
> I am currently using SHA256, enabled in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf with the
> following option:
> personal-digest-preferences SHA256

You don't add several mail addresses to that key? Do you have more keys?

> If you are interested in adding such a subkey, and configuring your
> gpg.conf to use SHA512, please let me know, I'll try to walk you through
> the process in Terminal.

Thanks.

Maybe first to understand these open questions would be the first step.

Greets,
B. Alabay

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