[EXT] Best practices for obtaining a new GPG certificate

[Ángel]

On 2021-03-18 at 15:15 +0100, john doe via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Reading the URLs given by the OP, I see that the GPG FAQ (1) talks
> about a default of '2048' but in the latest (2.2.17) release of GPG
> it looks like the default is now '3072':
> What keysize do you want? (3072)
> 
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> 1)  https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#no_default_of_rsa4096


The FAQis outdated. GnuPG was indeed updated some years ago to use 3072
as the default size for rsa

https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=909fbca19678e6e36968607e8a2348381da39d8c