[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#644385: gnupg: Please default to 4096 bit keys for RSA

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Mon Feb 20 21:58:43 UTC 2012


Hi Adrian,

> it would make sense to change the default RSA keysize to 4096.
>
> Other keysizes would still be possible for people having a reason for
> them, but people going with the defaults would get a stronger key.

I strongly believe that this is something upstream should decide to either
do or not do, but not something we should be patching in Debian only. I'll
gladly await an upstream decision on this.


Cheers,
Thijs







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