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You get RSA by default with GnuPG. Since the signature method embodies your PGP identity you want to pick the method with the widest implementation. RSA is supported by TLS 1.3 for roughly the same reason.

There are add on standards for various curves available for PGP should you want to mess around with them. GnuPG implements them all. Other implementations do not.

Note that the encryption issues associated with an offline compatible system such as OpenPGP are different than online connected systems like TLS. The article was mostly talking about the sort of issues that crop up with an online connected system.




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