Public Key

Jan Girlich vollkorn at cryptobitch.de
Sun Feb 26 23:57:53 CET 2023


Hi,

On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 20:53 +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> Il 26 febbraio 2023 alle 14:09 Richard Bostrom via Gnupg-users ha
> scritto:
> > May I please ask why some 4096 bit keys are longer then others?
> > 
> > Richard Stallmans key is much longer then my 4096 bit key.
> 
> I suspect: signatures. They make keys longer

each identity makes your key larger. Multiple Subkeys for different
purposes. You can also add additional data like an image. My key is
667KB large, when exported with ASCII armor.

Cheers,
Jan



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