Revisions to the GNU Privacy Handbook

Jesús Franco tezcatl at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 19 12:17:06 CET 2011


mezzanine at Safe-mail.net wrote:

> The current issue of the GNU Privacy Handbook appears to date back to the
> year 1999. Out of interest, I obtained a copy of the handbook and edited
> it with the hope of making it somewhat more up-to-date. In particular, the
> revisions include such things as generating RSA keys (from what one
> remembers, in 1999 RSA encryption was subject to licensing restrictions
> that probably prevented it from being widely implemented in the GnuPG
> software), 2048-bit keys for public-key encryption (as opposed to 1024-bit
> keys), the deprecation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, graphical front-ends
> for the GnuPG software, and the difference between fully valid and
> marginally valid keys (I am still not sure as to whether the path length
> limit of five steps applies in all cases.) Some URLs have also been
> updated.
> 
> --Richard

What happened to this? I'd like a lot to translate this awesome book to 
Spanish as soon as possible. Is there any handy copy of the manual after 
applying the changes we could start on?

Thanks in advance. 

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