RSA compatibility

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Dec 19 23:49:50 CET 2003


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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:41:38PM -0800, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> if i generate a key consisting of an RSA signing key and an RSA encryption
> (sub) key, will that be compatible with all reasonably current versions
> of PGP/GPG?

Define "reasonably current".  It it means "any PGP after 7, and any
GnuPG after 1.0.6" then yes, it's compatible.  You could probably go
back even further, but those are both quite old now and known to work.

David
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