key generation question

Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.net.pl
Fri Jun 16 11:30:54 CEST 2006


On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:35:11PM -0500, Joe Vender wrote:
> Question:
> Is it possible - and if so, how - to generate an RSA key in which the 
> size of the key is a prime number? For example, a key size of 4013, 
> 4051, etc. ? Every time I try to use a prime number for the key size, 
> PGP rounds the size up to a non-prime number. Why will it not 
> generate a key of ANY size between 1024-4096?

have you tried --expert mode?



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