Translations:Concepts/OpenPGP Getting Started/3/en

Thus this article shall make you familiar with the important aspects of key generation and help you generate a good key which you can use for many years. This article covers just the concepts you should be familiar with, it does not contain a step by step tutorial for key generation because these should be separate phases: First understand and plan what you are going to do and make the necessary preparations. If you have finished that have a look at the OpenPGP key generation article.