RSA+RSA is now the default
Christopher J. Walters
cwal989 at comcast.net
Tue May 26 06:16:58 CEST 2009
Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just committed changes to the GnuPG trunk to make RSA with an RSA
> subkey the default. This also changes the order of the presented
> algorithms, but 1 is still the default. The interactive --gen-key
> has never been intended for use by frontends, thus this change may
> only reveal buggy frontends ;-). Frontends should use the --batch
> key generation with a parameter file and thus need to change the
> default algorithm on their own (I already did this for GPA).
[snip]
> I hope this is okay.
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
> Werner
Hi,
That's no problem for me. I've been making RSA + RSA keypairs for some
time now. Of course, I am
the guy who tested out ECC... LOL! No one could read my messages - now
that's secure.
Regards,
Chris
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