Re: Debian preferred maintainer pgp key parameters?

[and1000@cam.ac.uk (Austin Donnelly)]

In article <[🔎] 199605171520.IAA03363@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com> you write:
>
>I'm intending to start changing change the maintainer address
>on my packages to "Bill Mitchell <mitchell@master.debian.org>".
>Since this will involve generating a new pgp key, I'd like to
>use whatever key parameters are preferred for Debian maintainers.
>
>What's preferred -- 512, 768, or 1024 bits?

I think that the canonical address for a Debian developer is meant to be
<developer@debian.org>.  This way, the mailhost can be changed separately
from master.

I think 1024 bits is the normal key length, though it may be over the
top :)

Austin