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James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all..
I'm trying to get this to work. I've got a 1024k key working. But a few of my buddies are using 4096k keys. How can I work with this?
Use # gpg --gen-key from the command line to generate the key and specify 4096 bits as the option. 4096 bits is fairly paranoid. I use 1024 bits and make the key expire after a year. You might also like to export your key to a keyserver. This one took me a while. You can copy and paste to http://www.keyserver.net using a web browser, but first you have to export the key using something like #gpg --list-keys gpg: Warning: using insecure memory! /home/jdl/.gnupg/pubring.gpg ---------------------------- pub 1024D/17CA2F96 2003-03-23 John D Lamb <J.D.Lamb@btinternet.com> sub 1024g/F4420DE4 2003-03-23 [expires: 2004-03-22] This finds the key (17CA2F96). Then gpg --export -a 17CA2F96 To get the key in a form you can copy and paste. It was the -a that took a while for me ;-) -- JDL