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On 07/16/2015 07:04 AM, Diego Rabatone Oliveira wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> yesterday I was on a workshop about privacy and security where we
> talked about Thunderbird+Enigmail, among other tools.
>
> We were tought to create a PGP Certificate using Enigmail. We
> noticed that it seems to create a 4096bits Key pair, but when we
> looked at the certificate itself and compared it to a certificate
> created using the gpg command line tool with 4096 bits, the
> enigmail certificate was a lot smaller, which led us to thought
> that it would be anything wrong on the process. So, I'm sending
> this email to check with you if we misunderstood something or if
> there is really a bug on enigmail.
>
>
> This is an example of PGP certificate generated by enigmail:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91C22E8B8F50CF14
This
>
key has only one uid attached to it.
antropoiese <[email protected]>
this key is only self signed
>
> This is an example of PGP certificate generated by gpg command line
> tool with 4096bits:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA52A59848E521D0F
On
>
the other hand this key has 6 uid's attached to it
Diego Rabatone Oliveira <[email protected]>
Diego Rabatone Oliveira <[email protected]>
Diego Rabatone Oliveira <[email protected]>
Diego Rabatone Oliveira (DiRaOL) <[email protected]>
Diego Rabatone Oliviera (DiRaOL) <[email protected]>
Diego Rabatone Oliveira (Chave criada durante o MicroDebConf2015-BSB-B
gpg --list-sigs indicates that this key has three additional
signatures for each uid besides the self signature.
sig 04EBE9EF 2015-06-01 [User ID not found]
sig 89C55467 2015-06-01 [User ID not found]
sig E4B6813D 2015-06-01 [User ID not found]
>
> Thanks folks!
>
Each additional UID and signature adds to the key size
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Open PGP Key: C34B77CC
gpg fingerprint: 8AD5 35EF 1FDF F1A7 E483 8CCE A50D 4E81 C34B 77CC
For info on enigmail: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
For info on gpg: http://www.gnupg.org/
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no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
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