**tl;dr Stick with defaults. Choose RSA and 2048 size, put whatever in the name and leave out email and comment and put no password on it. In the future, learn how to use GnuPG if you want to encrypt and sign messages and files with it.**
GPG is not a kind of key, GPG is the program for creating OpenPGP keys. OpenPGP is just an standard which relays on different symmetric, asymmetric and hashing algorithms (just to short). In this case, you are **choosing for an asymmetric algorithm**. If you only want to verify, I would **stick with the default RSA and RSA**, which creates a PGP Master key for **certifying** (for signing keys/certificates), which is what you want, and signing (for signing messages and files) and a encryption subkey (for encrypting messages and files). DSA is not recommended. The **next step** should be **the size**, a default value of **2048 is okay for your use**, but I would recommend 4096 if you are going to use it for messaging as 2048 should be recommended unsafe around year 2030. The **third step** is the key expiration, **for your use you can leave it to 0**, so it never expires. Again, if you are going to learn and use GnuPG for encrypting and signing an expiration date is a good practice. After all you can always extend the expiration date in later use. After that confirm the expiraton choice. The **fourth step** is your UID, which tells what identities are tied to that key, usually real name, and optionally an email and/or a comment (like Debian Developer). For your case, **you can put anything you want and leave out email and comment, but use your online identities (real or anonymous) if you are going to use it for messaging later**. You can tie multiple identities or UIDs later. **At last**, you have to input the passphrase to protect your OpenPGP private key. For you use you can just hit cancel/leave it blank, so that it is passwordless but, again, in the future, if you want to message or sign stuff you should use a long password or passphrase for it. El 08/06/16 a las 22:42, Jonathan Coles escribió: > Thanks. > What kind of key do I want? GPG is not one of the options. > > gpg --gen-key > gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > tails-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > [email protected]. -- Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez GPG Keyfingerprint: 5A91 90D4 CF27 9D52 D62A BC58 88E2 947F 9BC6 B3CF _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
