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Re: Bits from keyring-maint: Pushing keyring updates. Let us bury your old 1024D key!



Xavier Roche dijo [Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:47:13PM +0100]:
> > I would tend to side more with Odyx here in that the keys are still
> > considered trustworthy enough to be in the keyring but we're encouraging
> > moving to stronger keys and no longer accepting these keys to be
> > included.
> 
> Yes, this was my thoughts, too.
> 
> Or, to rephrase it: 1024D keys will "soon" be breakable (let's say in
> few years), but at this present time, they are still trustworthy enough
> to allow transition.
> 
> It doesn't mean that eventually, they'll be considered untrustworthy, later.

Right. But we do want to phase them out *completely* before they are
considered untrustworthy: We want to push gently as far as possible so
that most active DDs have 4096R, and then only deal with the long tail
of deprecated keys *while still not exposing ourselves* to impersonation.

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