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  • 1.  PGP Public Key To long - Encryption Desktop

    Posted Oct 14, 2015 04:07 PM

    Good Morning,

    I recently got set up with PGP on Encryption Desktop and am getting set up with a government account. They requested a text file of the key, which I sent over. The only problem is that the person who I sent it to said that they key was too long for them to use and has to be under 4000 characters.How would I go about "shortening" the key or "compressing" it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you



  • 2.  RE: PGP Public Key To long - Encryption Desktop

    Posted Oct 15, 2015 05:53 PM

    If you used the default options for key creation, it is typically only be around 2,800 characters. 

    I would suggest going to your keyring, right-click the key, and select "Copy Public Key".

    Then paste that into a program like notepad++ 

    Notepad++ will show you the number of characters contained in the key. If it really is 4,000+ chars, you may want to generate a new key using the default options. 

    Feel free to let me know if that does not make sense. I'll be happy to continue assisting.

     



  • 3.  RE: PGP Public Key To long - Encryption Desktop

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Oct 20, 2015 05:23 AM

    Hi HB1991,

     

    Perhaps you have a large key size and many ADKs associated with this key.

     

    Regards,

    dcats