Need help with GPG/PGP email form...

Brian Minton bminton@efn.org
Tue Dec 10 07:41:01 2002


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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:01:13AM -0000, David Pic??n ??lvarez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > If my server is running PGP 2.6.2 and I'm running GPG 1.0.6,
> > what is the correct way to import my local public key to the
> > server? BTW, in my script I changed the pubring.pgp to
> > pubring.gpg. 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, you probably can't do this
> easily at all. The PGP version is very old and uses V3 RSA
> keys, which are, IIRC, unsupported anymore.

They can be used, but almost certainly the only way you are going
to be able to do it is to generate the key with pgp and then
import it into gpg.  You will have to download and compile the
idea plugin, which may not be legal if you are using this for a
company.  For more information, see
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html

> 
> --David.  PS I'm not sure that I'm right, so don't take my word
> for it.


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