How to create non-standard key pair

[jack seth]

> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:01:55 +1100
> From: Ben McGinnes <ben at adversary.org>
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: How to create non-standard key pair
> Message-ID: <4D30B9C3.2080901 at adversary.org>
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> On 13/01/11 6:10 AM, jack seth wrote:
> > I am needing to do some testing with these size keys.  Can someone
> > advise me on how to modify the code to generate these keys?
> 
> Seriously?  Really?  Well, okay ... this is for GnuPG 1.4.11 on a *nix
> platform:
> 
> Extract the tarball, cd to /path/to/gnupg-1.4.11/g10 then open
> keygen.c in a text editor.  Jump down to line no. 1,580 and change
> this:
> 
>   unsigned nbits, min, def=2048, max=4096;
> 
> To this:
> 
>   unsigned nbits, min, def=2048, max=16384;
> 
> Then do the configure, make, make install dance.
> 
> There are, of course, no guarantees that this will play nice with
> others and if you're trying to do this on Windows, I can't help.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> 
 
Thanks for the assistance.
 		 	   		  
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