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Bug 443016 - Please update gnupg-user guide
Summary: Please update gnupg-user guide
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: nm (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-11-13 19:38 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2012-11-13 23:11 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-11-13 19:38:29 UTC 
the guide says:

$ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
   (5) RSA (sign only)
   Your selection? 1


gpg says:

ago@devil ~ $ gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.19; Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) RSA and RSA (default)
   (2) DSA and Elgamal
   (3) DSA (sign only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?
Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-13 23:05:59 UTC 
there are a bunch of other changes to be made to the pinentry process, too, so i'm working on it.
Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-13 23:11:47 UTC 
fixed in CVS. updated key generation process, and gpg-agent/pinentry steps.