DSA = DSS?

John Bacalle john@unixen.org
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:24:51 -0400


On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:56:25PM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:

> It's definately not a patch. I'll go into the differences if need be...
It was just common usage; no need to elaborate. =)
> I am told that after sept 20, rsa v4
> keys will be able to be generated [...]
This is news to me; I wasn't aware that there were different versions of RSA keys. What version was used in the PGP 2.x series, out of curiosity? What's new in RSA v.4?
> > Thus, it appears to me at this point that if I use the default GnuPG
> > --gen-key option (DSA + ELG-E w/SHA1) I will be just fine communicating
> > with PGP 5/6 users.
>
> Yep. Just be sure to have the --force-v3-sigs option turned on.
Ah! Thanks again, I would've had to debug that otherwise. Enjoy the weekend out west, Len. John -- John Bacalle -- Archive is at http://lists.gnupg.org - Unsubscribe by sending mail with a subject of "unsubscribe" to gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org