Using gpg-created DSS keys with PGP 6.5.3

[L. Sassaman]

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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Pete Chown wrote:

> Seth Delackner wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, [pgp] also tells me that my passphrase is incorrect!
> > I went back to linux and verified the file I had signed and then
> > successfully encrypted and decrypted a file.  Windows continues to
> > be obtuse.  Help?
> 
> I don't know if it is still like it, but at one time pgp and gnupg
> used different symmetric algorithms for encrypting private keys.  The
> solution is to remove the passphrase using gnupg and then put it back
> using pgp.
> 
> I certainly moved a pgp 5 key to gnupg without problems, but I never
> tried to do the reverse.

The problem is that GnuPG uses Blowfish to encrypt the private key, and
PGP does not support Blowfish. Removing the passphrase is what is usually
recommended.


- --Len.

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L. Sassaman

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