key generation question

[John Clizbe]

Joe Vender wrote:
> Question:
> Is it possible - and if so, how - to generate an RSA key in which the 
> size of the key is a prime number? For example, a key size of 4013, 
> 4051, etc. ? Every time I try to use a prime number for the key size, 
> PGP rounds the size up to a non-prime number. Why will it not 
> generate a key of ANY size between 1024-4096?

IIRC, the standards require keys to be multiples of 32 bits in length.
Any value you specify will be rounded up to the next multiple of 32.

If you specify a key length of 1025, you'll get 1056.

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