According to your usage, I don't actually see *any* UserID given.  (Which should actually give you "invalid user ID specified".)

My guess is you mis-typed the UserID.  E.g., you did something like

pgp --gen-key Bob bob@localhost --key-type rsa ...

Try putting the entire UserID string in quotes, as in

pgp --gen-key "Bob <bob@localhost>" --key-type rsa ...

Regards,

Yes, I tried that , but I get the same error.

example: :pgp --gen-key "bob"  --key-type rsa xxxx

Any ideas?

Peter

The error means that there are multiple arguments being interpreted as the possible UserID.  Can you please post the entire invocation you are using?

David,  This is the full command that I am trying :

pgp --gen-key "bob"  --key-type rsa --encryption-bits 2048 --signing-bits 2048 --passphrase 'Dont go' --expiration-date 2014-06-01

I can't reproduce the problem you are seeing.  What operating system are you on?  Does it help if you put the passphrase in double quotes instead of single quotes ("Dont go" instead of 'Dont go')?

Thanks.

I am using Windows 7 ultimate.

This is the full command :

pgp --gen-key "bob"  --key-type rsa --encryption-bits 2048 --signing-bits 2048 --passphrase 'Dont go' --expiration-date 2014-06-01

If I run --list-keys-xml , I see a empty list.

Any suggestions?

Peter

OK - I got --gen-key to work on a different machine .

Thanks, PEter