[PATCH] Make --enable-large-rsa work

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Feb 4 15:28:10 CET 2015


On Wed 2015-02-04 05:57:17 -0500, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:

> This patch makes --enable-large-rsa actually work for me, otherwise the
> dialogue doesn't allow a 8192 bit keysize to be entered.

My understanding was that --enable-large-rsa enables creation of
keysizes up to 8192 in --batch mode (i.e. for programmatic use by other
tools), and enables the *use* of large RSA keys that otherwise might
fail due to lack of allocated secure memory.

I don't think the intent was to expose the size of 8192 to the normal
user interface.

     --dkg



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