-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Michał Gołębiowski wrote: > I generated a gpg key using 'gpg --gen-key' (using GPG 1.4.6). What > concerns me is that no matter how strong agorithm would I choose, it > doesn't affect the size of the public & private key. It's probably ok, > but I wonder - how safe is the private key having exported ASCII > signature sized circa 2600 bytes? Public key is similar in size. > > I see many people have keys sized 4800 bytes and even 10x bigger. How to > generate such longer keys? Is the size connected with GPG version I use? > Is my key secure? I used a passphrase sized about 40 symbols, all > English letters not making any word/phrase/etc., so it's quite long. > > I would appreciate Your help. >
Try either putting the line enable-dsa2 in your gpg.conf file or on the commandline add the command gpg --enable-dsa2 --gen-key Or instead of DSA key, choose to make a RSA key. All three those options will then open a key size query dialog for you. - -- Werewolf =====- http://www.nyx.net/~mdkeith/ -==== GPG key F52A14B4 with following fingerprint 35CD 0611 2F71 BC17 5C53 29A2 5F5A 4309 F52A 14B4 =====- http://spandex31095.tripod.com/ -== Book: "The important thing is the spices. A man could live on enough packaged food from here till judgment day as long as he has enough rosemary." --Episode #1, "Serenity" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Portable Thunderbird version 2.0.0.17 (20080914) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iFYEAREKAAYFAkl9yoEACgkQyKLEzsWkrWiAZgDfeKXoc56tR/aVf1dg5n2eFvH+ wtwvmEJknhOLcADghXS+OotrVwgP2qHGTTwGqIGjh7PGyYEbmYKwLw== =L4yn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users