newbie questions

[lucas@gonze.com]

Question #1, with more to follow.  Any idea what the file open error below 
is about?

$ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
gpg: /home/lgonze/.gnupg: directory created
gpg: new configuration file `/home/lgonze/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: keyblock resource `/home/lgonze/.gnupg/secring.gpg': file open error
gpg: keyring `/home/lgonze/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created