Re: RSA vs DSA/ElGamal

2006-06-08 Thread Zach Himsel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John W. Moore III wrote: > Zach Himsel wrote: > >>> I created a RSA key that can sign and encrypt (only one key, no subkey). >>> Is that ok? Or is that a security and/or performance weakness? Or is it >>> better? > > That's Fine! There is *no* sec

Re: RSA vs DSA/ElGamal

2006-06-08 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Zach Himsel wrote: > I created a RSA key that can sign and encrypt (only one key, no subkey). > Is that ok? Or is that a security and/or performance weakness? Or is it > better? That's Fine! There is *no* security weakness there; as long as the Ke

Re: RSA vs DSA/ElGamal

2006-06-08 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Zach Himsel wrote: > My private key was recently compromised (Which sucks, I know). I was in > the process of generating a new keypair when I realized "Why do I use > RSA? What's the difference". Hence my question :) > > If I *do* use DSA/ElGamal, w

RSA vs DSA/ElGamal

2006-06-08 Thread Zach Himsel
My private key was recently compromised (Which sucks, I know). I was in the process of generating a new keypair when I realized "Why do I use RSA? What's the difference". Hence my question :) If I *do* use DSA/ElGamal, what bitrate should I use? I know there are FAQs and documentations that say to

Re: gpgsm

2006-06-08 Thread Thomas Widhalm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As far as I got from the documentation, gpgsm is no replacement but an extension for gpg (even when it may be run alone) for using S/MIME. mkontakt schrieb: > Sorry to bother, but are there any differences between gpg and gpgsm > apps. The only differ