advantages/disadvantages of DSA/RSA keys (was: Re: implications of subkeys?)

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Saturday 02 March 2002 15:21, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:51:01PM +0100, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Friday 01 March 2002 20:39, David Shaw wrote:
> > > Yes.  The algorithm is up to you and what you trust more.  GnuPG
> > > 1.0.7 gives you the choice between DSA and RSA.  They each have
> > > advantages and disadvantages.
> >
> > Is there somewhere a short but complete list of the advantages and
> > disadvantages?
>
> This is pretty good:
>      http://www.samsimpson.com/pgpfaq.html

Thanks. At least from section 8.1 it doesn't seem that RSA keys have any 
advantages (except the backwards compatibility with plain PGP 2.x).

Regards,
Ingo

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