Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

Charly Avital shavital at mac.com
Sun Apr 8 00:00:13 CEST 2007


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Alexander Feigl wrote the following on 4/7/07 9:30 PM:
[...]


> I pasted a testing key below. The key with the key id 0x2D879666 gets imported 
> as 0xB61454A3 here.
> 
> While such large keys seem like overkill. But gnupg also supports the SHA512 
> hash which would require such large keys for sensible use.
> 
> Alexander Feigl
> 
[...]

Hi,


Running gpg 1.4.7 under Mac OSX 10.4.9
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pub  16384R/17CACAE3  created: 2007-04-07  expires: never       usage: SCEA
                     trust: unknown       validity: unknown
[ unknown] (1). Testing only <test at test.test>

Command> check
uid  Testing only <test at test.test>
sig!3        2D879666 2007-04-07  [User ID not found]
1 user ID without valid self-signature detected

Command> fpr
pub   16384R/17CACAE3 2007-04-07 Testing only <test at test.test>
 Primary key fingerprint: 3945 7320 723A 643D FB07  F7A3 C8B6 7AA7 17CA CAE3

Command> showpref
[ unknown] (1). Testing only <test at test.test>
     Cipher: 3DES
     Digest: SHA1
     Compression: ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: Keyserver no-modify
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The key is recognized by PGP Desktop 9.6.0 (Macintosh) as:
0x2D879666
Fingerprint: BCA2 2448 8F7C 5646 A94A CE16 35BE A302 2D87 9666



Best regards,
Charly

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