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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by johkra on Friday May 14, 2010 @04:25AM (#1346882)
Thanks for answering my curious questions so far. =)

Since I messed up formatting earlier, my first question about generating keys with this particular exponent was hidden:

Do you know how to generate such a key pair using gpg (or another tool)? Or is this done automatically?

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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by cperciva on Friday May 14, 2010 @04:27AM (#1346883)
In OpenSSL you can pass your public exponent to RSA_generate_key. I'm not sure about gpg... it has been a while since I last generated a key.
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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by godavid on Friday May 14, 2010 @04:18PM (#1348478)
Maybe you are looking for this article (generate RSA/RSA GPG key):

http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/

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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by gduffy on Friday May 14, 2010 @05:41AM (#1346942)
For OpenSSL command line:

  openssl genrsa -f4 2048
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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by johkra on Friday May 14, 2010 @12:12PM (#1347654)
Thanks, OpenSSL actually uses 0x10001 by default for e. I'll use it instead of GPG from now on to generate keys.
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