[Gpg4win-users-en] Key Generation

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 23:30:55 CEST 2010


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El 12-08-2010 13:09, J. E. Lewis escribió:
> Is there a way to generate an ElGamal subordinate keypair for encryption using
> GPA?  I was trying to generate a new DSA key for signing and an ElGamal key
> for encryption.

  Go to Preferences, and enable Use advanced mode.
  Also, go to your gpg home directory, and edit your gpg.conf file (use
notepad or equivalent), and add the following line:
enable-dsa2

  That way you can generate DSA keys bigger than 1024 bits (1024 bits
are supposed to be deprecated this year). Using DSA2 keys can cause
compatibility issues, so you have to chose what to do.

  Best Regards
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