On Monday, April 07, 2014 at 1:39 AM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > >On 04/02/2014 01:55 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: >> Is it possible to generate an RSA key in GnuPG, and then use it >(not in GnuPG, but in other systems using RSA keys), to encrypt >and decrypt RSA messages? > >i think you might be interested in openpgp2pem from the >monkeysphere >package. > >> If so, what portion of the GnuPG generated RSA key functions as >a 'pure' RSA key? > >I don't think this question is actually the question you want to >ask. >"pure" RSA is extremely limited, and a secret RSA key is usually >only >used for either signing or decrypting symmetric session keys, >whether >that's in TLS or OpenPGP or CMS or any other place where RSA is >used. > > --dkg
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