linux-kernel - Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

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Message-ID: <4E8B82F2.8020709@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:04:34 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
CC:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

On 10/04/2011 03:02 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> In the meantime, at least one reason came up in parallel discussion ... a 
> lot of people have those oldish keys generated as 1024bit or so, and using 
> DSA.
> 
> And it seems like 4096/RSA is sort of required here.
> 

If nothing else it should be considered modern practice.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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