musings...

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:56:47AM +0100, john clark wrote:
> 
> 
> 1) Yo David, is there any good reason for this RSA/Elg
> combo?
> 
> pub  4096R/99242560 2002-01-28 David M. Shaw
> <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
> sub  2048g/1643B926 2002-01-28 [expires: 2012-01-26]

No major reason, but a few minor ones.  It makes more sense if you
know that the key is incomplete - there is another subkey attached (a
DSA signing key).  I use the Elgamal key for encryption, the DSA
signing key in some places for signing, and the big RSA key is only
used to sign subkeys and is stored offline.

David

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