[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Re: GSoC Updates

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Aug 22 22:55:34 CEST 2013


On 08/22/2013 02:45 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2013, at 03:12 PM, Abhilash Raj wrote:
> 
>> 2) RSA or DSA keys?
>>
>> DSA can only be used for signing but is faster than RSA, although for
>> now our scope is limited to signing later on we "will" add encryption so
>> I think we should stick to RSA?
> 
> RSA probably.  I don't think the difference in speed will be noticeable.

I think sticking to the gpg defaults is an unobjectionable choice at
this point, and that is currently 2048-bit RSA.

	--dkg

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