does gpg cope with very large key sizes
Philippe Cerfon
philcerf at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 13 19:07:26 CEST 2009
Hi.
For those wo are interested,... ;)
I've aborted trying to create a 65536 bit RSA key. Took just too long
and I don't know enough on key generation to make an estimation ;)
Anyway,.. when trying to create 32768 bit RSA key I've got the following error:
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
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gpg: out of secure memory while allocating 4096 bytes
gpg: (this may be caused by too many secret keys used simultaneously
or due to excessive large key sizes)
Is this a bug? Or is there anything I can do to get more "secure memory"?
Thanks,
Philippe
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