I just followed these instructions and generated a 8192 RSA key with gnupg.

http://goo.gl/ycJZkj

It works perfectly...

The limits on key size were chosen with great deliberation and for good reasons. Although you are certainly free to change these limits, it would be unwise to do so lightly. Most users who create extremely large certificates will immediately encounter three major problems:

* It won't work with smartcards
* Other GnuPG users can't verify signatures it makes
* Other GnuPG users can't encrypt to it

If you need a longer key, then wait for elliptical-curve cryptography to be added to GnuPG. (It should be coming along fairly soon.)


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