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Re: [openpgp] Intent to deprecate: Insecure primitives

2015-03-16 16:17:56
On Mar 16, 2015, at 5:00 PM, David Leon Gil <coruus(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Monday, March 16, 2015, Jon Callas <jon(_at_)callas(_dot_)org> wrote:

On Mar 16, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Stephen Paul Weber 
<singpolyma(_at_)singpolyma(_dot_)net> wrote:

In fact, aren't the RSA-E and RSA-S algorithms basically just historical / 
mostly deprecated in favour of marking keys for a particular use?

My impression was that many new implementations use the RSA-S and RSA-E 
algorithms for signing keys and encryption subkeys. But -- taking a look at 
SKS numbers --algorithm 1 is used quite a lot.

Having a lot of algorithm 1 makes sense: RSA-S and RSA-E are deprecated, and 
were made "SHOULD NOT" create in 4880, in favor of using the key flags 
subpacket to indicate usage.  I don't know of any current implementations that 
use RSA-S or RSA-E for new keys.

David

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