Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

From: Florian Weimer (Weimerat_private-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 01:18:50 PST

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    "Lucky Green" <shamrockat_private> writes:
    
    > In light of the above, I reluctantly revoked all my personal 1024-bit
    > PGP keys and the large web-of-trust that these keys have acquired over
    > time.
    
    And this is certainly the wrong thing to do.  Key revocations are not
    the proper way to deal with algorithmic weaknesses.  Many people will
    follow your advice and destroy large parts of the web of trust, and we
    don't even know yet if there's a real threat (Bernstein himself said
    so a few weeks ago, for example).
    
    You don't revoke your keys just because someone can impersonate you,
    using bugs in a widespread OpenPGP implementation, do you?
    
    -- 
    Florian Weimer 	                  Weimerat_private-Stuttgart.DE
    University of Stuttgart           http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
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