try gpg --gen-key --expert

Hardeep Singh
http://blog.Hardeep.name



On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Durant, Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, I noticed, on windows (which I truly despise), when I type
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\me\Application Data\gnupg>gpg --gen-key
>
> I get:
>
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.12; Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (add'l 
> copyleft info)
>
> Please select what kind of key you want:
>   (1) RSA and RSA (default)
>   (2) DSA and Elgamal
>   (3) DSA (sign only)
>   (4) RSA (sign only)
>
> on ubuntu, I get these choices (the version of GPG is 2.0.9):
> Please select what kind of key you want:
>
> (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
> (2) DSA (sign only)
> (5) RSA (sign only)
>
> What is the difference?   Isn't RSA better?
>
> I tried using apt-get to get the version on linux up to the same version # on 
> windows, and it wouldn't.
>
> Once you generate a key, is it bound to the email address supplied during 
> generation, so that, if someone else emails your key out, you won't be able 
> to decrypt something encrypted to their email?   Or is the email address 
> completely uninvolved?
>
> Thanks, Dean
>
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