Re: DH Key

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/23/2011 11:11 AM, Lane Brooks wrote: I need to generate a 2048-bit PGP version 6.5.3 or later and of the type DH/DSS public key. I have read in the FAQ how to edit the key to be compatible with PGP, but I cannot find how to generate a DH type key. The gnupg on Fedora 15 has the following

Re: DH Key

2011-06-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
DSS is the Digital Signature Standard, which is also known as DSA (the Digital Signature Algorithm). Not quite. DSA can be used with any 160-bit hash, but DSS specifies the use of SHA-1. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: DH Key

2011-06-23 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:11:37 -0600, Lane Brooks l...@brooks.nu wrote: I need to generate a 2048-bit PGP version 6.5.3 or later and of the type DH/DSS public key. For reasons I've never been able to understand, PGP insists on calling

Re: DH Key

2011-06-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:11:37 -0600, Lane Brooks l...@brooks.nu wrote: I need to generate a 2048-bit PGP version 6.5.3 or later and of the type DH/DSS public key. For reasons I've never been able to understand, PGP insists on calling Elgamal Diffie-Hellman, and insists on calling the Digital

Error messages when generating new keys

2011-06-23 Thread Olivier N.
Hello! I'm a newbie GPG user. I'm using Linux and GPG2. When generating new keys, I get several error messages: gpg: problem with the agent: Bad CA certificate gpg: problem with the agent: Invalid card gpg: Key generation canceled. What mean “Bad CA certificate” and “Invalid card”? How can I