Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Mon Jan 12 15:09:13 CET 2015


On Wednesday 07 January 2015 at 03:30:55, MFPA wrote:
> > But I have seen some of the more
> > paranoid privacy folks doing 4096 key pairs.
>
> I'm sure I have even seen discussions about 16384-bit. I seem to
> recall somebody posting where the code would need changing to allow
> this, but cautioning such a key would be unusable by virtually
> everybody else.

Pointers to the FAQ and discussions:
  https://wiki.gnupg.org/LargeKeys


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