What's for --gen-prime?

[Jure Mercun]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:18:10PM +0800, ChingChe_Chen@asus.com.tw wrote:
> I read an option from the man page as below:
> 
> ----- Option from MAN -----
>        --gen-prime mode bits [qbits]
>                  Use the source, Luke :-). The output  format  is
>                  still subject to change.
> ----- End list -----
> 
> Could someone kindly tell me what it means? Is it man page not complete yet?
> I also looked old version (gpg-1.0.2) that is the same.

Hi.

I don't know, but I would suspect that it generates a prime number.

And by source, it probably means the source code of gnupg.
It's probably one of those if-you-don't-know-what-it-does-you-don't-need-it
options.

It's not neccesary from the user's point of view.

Regards, Jure Mercun