The number of lines of a key opened in a text-editor

[Olav Seyfarth]

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Hi Burcu,

you tried to derive the key "strength" from the number of lines of the (ASCII
armored) public key. It does not work like that. The secret of a 2048 bit key
is 2048 bit, that would be approx. [1] 5.5 "lines" you counted.

However, the public key also contains user identities (aka Email addresses),
signatures and other information described in detail in [2]. You may examine
your PUBLIC key packets by pasting them into a pgpdump [3] converter [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#OpenPGP
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
[3] http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/pgpdump/en/
[4] http://www.pgpdump.net/

Olav
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