Rsa or Rsa Legacy with PGP 7.0

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:25:55AM -0100, Josep M. wrote:
> >
> > > I would like know if GNUPG supports "RSA" pgp keys of PGP 7.0 or
> > > MUST be created as "RSA Legacy".
> >
> > It supports both.  However, regular RSA (not "legacy") is a better key
> > type to use unless you must be compatible with very old PGP programs.
> 
> "Very old" in this context means any version of PGP prior to 7.0,
> including 6.5.8.

No, 6.5.8 works with v4 RSA keys.  It won't generate them, of course,
but it can encrypt to them and verify sigs from them if they are not
too large (4096 doesn't work, 2048 seems to).

David

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