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| author | Neal H. Walfield <[email protected]> | 2016-03-17 10:13:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Neal H. Walfield <[email protected]> | 2016-03-17 10:14:55 +0000 |
| commit | 1dc7f55a4095ee42ce2d8c3eb41b7162edf2ca2e (patch) | |
| tree | e6973f654336970edb0ced64b93d7a066453bfaa | |
| parent | agent: allow removal of the shadowed key. (diff) | |
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doc: Improve documentation of --enable-large-rsa.
* doc/gpg.texi (--enable-large-rsa): Improve text.
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Signed-off-by: Neal H. Walfield <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Bernhard Reiter <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi index 810f39da5..89e098dcd 100644 --- a/doc/gpg.texi +++ b/doc/gpg.texi @@ -1227,10 +1227,12 @@ the opposite meaning. The options are: @itemx --disable-large-rsa @opindex enable-large-rsa @opindex disable-large-rsa -With --gen-key and --batch, enable the creation of larger RSA secret -keys than is generally recommended (up to 8192 bits). These large -keys are more expensive to use, and their signatures and -certifications are also larger. +With --gen-key and --batch, enable the creation of RSA secret keys as +large as 8192 bit. Note: 8192 bit is more than is generally +recommended. These large keys don't significantly improve security, +but they are more expensive to use, and their signatures and +certifications are larger. This option is only available if the +binary was build with large-secmem support. @item --enable-dsa2 @itemx --disable-dsa2 |