how long the key is

Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer at exit109.com
Tue Apr 26 18:15:52 CEST 2005


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mike.salehi at kodak.com wrote:
> I always thought the length of key and its subordinate is the same but now
> I got this
> pub  1024D/17EEDBD7 1999-06-09 xxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxx <operations at x.com>
>       sub  4096g/E10A5B9F 1999-06-09
> 
> so is it 1024 or 4096

Yes.

Your 17EEDBD7 key is 1024 bits and your E10A5B9F key is 4096 bits.

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