On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:18, [email protected] said:
> Ok, then do the keys GnuPG generates for Enigmail come from elliptic
> curves, from integer factorization, or from discreet logarithms?  Once the
> size of the prime is chosen (1024 bits, say) does GnuPG always use the same

RSA requires a new prime for each keypair.  For DSA and Elgamal GnuPG
also creates a new prime for each keypair.  For ECC fixed curve
parameters are used and the secret part is a random number.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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