[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#749335: Oldstable GnuPG no longer capable of using large keys

[Werner Koch]

On Sun,  1 Jun 2014 12:51, intrigeri at debian.org said:

> oldstable than in testing/sid: it's one thing to accept upstream's
> newly set limits in testing/sid; it's an entirely different thing to

For the records, GnuPG never supported keys larger than keys you can
create with GnuPG, which is for RSA 4096 bit.  Largers keys may or may
not work.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


p.s. A 16k key is actually the worst thing one can do and actually
decreases overall security.

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