gpg key generation options
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have installed gpg version 1.4.10 , the last I think. When I run --gen-key the menù display 4 voices while the guide and manual saw on gpg web page show only 3 voices. Maybe the online documentation is out of date ? My final problem is to get an explanation of fourth voice RSA and RSA , why I can't encrypt a file with a key pair generated with this option ? thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJM3xcrAAoJEMomimwKQvQirbMQAIS0OQNtBfRCPo6a1Sr3Kz3q wQLrsksywRZMA/ijLGZEK7PtM8vW+xG11VeR+4NXl2Bqv/tAbc0sEVWjA+K+1tHJ KUX0R3pDBwCcvtyUw5ebpEIjAIDoc0CJMsJJdVkMqUvepyynx34SGCC2RaN5Ir5E Qc6voZkpnX92ZPHNHaNOkmKp8vSOX5Yt9HfEC+1kPhsyBjHe/OM0wr4Z+mJImPQz n5rHHKS8Q8V60lfC/z06Bm1yEK/nDTBXHytMYi1WOx4eNbrHShcmJv6P7GrVn4k5 ZQUYpfiUSSu0JZP+vyjFp1JkVKgGK4u+Jr79YpwZldFxGSyZwN+8MrxQHlSNe5pF O6a8E/F+nIkECh4CMtvqrsP8uaiZnk5p3RznEOGJMTa4d9JvBX4R2mB6y+Fa+MjP DdgU5aAU7RXtnTRpAIMgoVBByNP4s/MgihJdNDH1pRkjdjim7IJslBosNsfy5+6q nlWsLJstZ2hu2wh7vjOf6ExvqbAAVqi9SJJHClSuWAXug+UEx4g3WiSk1otyO6z2 KvP3tIvCKXO2Yl4OTbOT3YBuHWx6NZ42jaSwNlzT2cfdbvHPLF8MGqoB3ianUiDU 1QPgNm0gnfyPFqzs/l8f9L6OgUPabsg7rWbNTTaDmFMe4dWN+n7qaYf+oZFEEIK4 BVHRuAsuyghDch8HTwdG =6TYA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: gpg key generation options
Francesco Savino wrote the following on 11/13/10 5:54 PM: I have installed gpg version 1.4.10 , the last I think. The current release for GnuPG is 1.4.11, and 2.0.16 for gpg2. But I believe 1.4.10 is fine too. My final problem is to get an explanation of fourth voice RSA and RSA , why I can't encrypt a file with a key pair generated with this option ? In Terminal choice number (4) is: Please select what kind of key you want: (1) RSA and RSA (default) (2) DSA and Elgamal (3) DSA (sign only) (4) RSA (sign only) That is: RSA (sign only). As its name indicates, it's only for signing, you can't use it for encryption. As for RSA and RSA choice number (1), I ran a test, and generated an RSA keypair, that includes an Encryption subkey. Regards, Charly MacOS 10.6.5-MacBook Intel C2Duo 2GHz-GnuPG 1.4.11-MacGPG 2.0.16 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 - Running Enigmail version 1.1.2 (20100629-1412) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
