rsaref secmem

Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ualberta.ca
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:19:18 -0600 (MDT)


On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Dave Harvill wrote:


> I occasionally get an error similar to the following:
>
> gpg: Signature made Sat Aug 7 09:46:39 1999 EDT using RSAREF key ID
> 65E8C1A7
> gpg: requesting key 65E8C1A7 from pgp.ai.mit.edu ...
> gpg: fatal: Key length is too large for RSAREFsecmem usage: 1408/1408
> bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/16384
>
> Is this a misconfiguration on my part? or is it merely something that's
> not 'up & running' yet?
The RSAREF library has a key length limit of 1024 bits, that key is larger and cannot be processed by the library. (AFIAK at least) Jason