RSA Encryption

pd pd4953@myrealbox.com
Fri Sep 7 22:16:01 2001



>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:23:07 -0400
>To: Johan Wevers <johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
>From: pd <pd4953@myrealbox.com>
>Subject: Re: RSA Encryption
>
>Really?
>
>What kind of keys does it create currently? I generated a a private and
>public key pair that I thought was RSA.
>
>pd
>
>At 06:27 PM 9/7/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>>Averroes wrote:
>>
>> > Is It possible to create a RSA private key with GnuPG?
>>
>>Not yet. It will be in 1.0.7. However, if you want to remain compatible
>>with pgp 2.X you'd better create an RSA key with a pgp 2 version because
>>GnuPG will use a different format for its generated RSA keys (but it can
>>handle the keys generated with pgp 2.x).
>>
>>--
>>ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
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>>PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
>>
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