On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:29, expires2...@ymail.com said: > Does it matter how many characters are for "real name," "comment," > "email address," or is it just a limit to the total length?
The limit is on the total length: /* Cap the size of a user ID at 2k: a value absurdly large enough that there is no sane user ID string (which is printable text as of RFC2440bis) that won't fit in it, but yet small enough to avoid allocation problems. A large pktlen may not be allocatable, and a very large pktlen could actually cause our allocation to wrap around in xmalloc to a small number. */ If you create a new user ID which is longer than the limit and you try to use the key you will get an invalid packet error message. There are no checks on the maximum length while creating a user id. Other implementations of OpenPGP may have different or no such constraints. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users