Elgamal signatures (was Re: splitting keys)

[David Picon Alvarez]

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> I guess it depends on why you are signing.  If the intent is to get
> other people to check the signatures on your messages to verify they
> did indeed come from you, then it does sort of defeat the purpose of
> signing if checking the signature is so unpleasant that nobody does
> it.

OK, I see this, it's just that it doesn't take me nearly as much to generate
or check my own sigs. Maybe I don't have enough perspective about this.


> There are many reasons not to use Elgamal signatures.  Only GnuPG
> supports them, so you can't communicate with any other OpenPGP
> program.  They are also incredibly slow, which means people have to
> sit for 10-20 seconds every time they need to check one of your
> messages.  If they have their mail reader configured to automatically
> verify signatures, then they can be reading happily along, hit one of
> your messages, and they're locked up for a while.

OK, OK. I guess I'll make an RSA key and loose the few signatures I managed
to collect :-)


Is this better then?

- --David.

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