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Re: Bits from keyring-maint



* Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) wrote:
> On Sep 14, "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that those figures are because 2048 bits is the default size
> > for RSA keys and 4096 bits is the largest size that GnuPG supports.
> FWIW, the OpenPGP smartcard v2 supports keys up to 3072 bits.
> 

Many of them actually support the 4096 bit keys, it's bugs in gpg that
prevent them from being used:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-October/025411.html

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