riseup.net OpenPGP Best Practices article

[Nex6|Bill]

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On 6/24/2014 10:52 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> I recently, generated a new keypair (GPG4win), and the defaults 
>> presented where RSA/2048. I did, some digging around on the RSA
>> vs DSA thing and RSA still seems to be the recommended way to go,
>> the only thing I did was up my key size to 4096 I left all the
>> other defaults.....
> 
> This depends on what you mean by recommended, and why.  The last
> time I checked it wasn't possible to use DSA2 keys to sign a Linux
> RPM file, for instance.  Likewise, there are smartcards that don't
> support DSA2, and so on.
> 
> But if you're not using one of those niche applications then
> there's really not much difference worth mentioning between RSA2048
> and DSA2048.  :)

yea, compatibility is a big issue from what I understand RSA is far more
compatible than DSA is. which is why i use an RSA key, though a larger
key....
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