Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Apr 16 20:16:10 CEST 2007


On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:42, shavital at mac.com said:

> gpg: WARNING: some OpenPGP programs can't handle a DSA key with this
> digest size
> dsa.c:187: failed assertion `nbits >= 512 && nbits <= 1024'
> Abort trap

It won't help to fix it right now because the stable libgcrypt has no
support for DSA-2.  However, it should be an error message and no
assertion failure.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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