What kind of key do I have?

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Tue Jan 14 15:47:02 2003


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On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:26, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Hi GnuPGs,
>=20
> I fill a form to make a certification motion=B9. I have to specify
> whether my key is RSA or DSS/DH but I guess I have DSA & ElGamal
> (default of GnuPG). Am I right? Are these keys useable with PGP
> 5.0i(Linux)?
>=20
> I've created my keys (0x4EA52583) in April of 2001 using GnuPG 1.0.4
> or so. Now I use GnuPG 1.2.1.

Hi!

You can see the key type from the gpg --list-key output:

pub  1024D/4EA52583 ...
sub  4096g/364DD298 ...

This means a 1024 bit DSA key with a 4096 bit ElGamal subkey. RSA keys
have 'R'.

cheers
-- vbi


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