import public keys generated with PGP 7.0.3

[Ralf Hauser]

The following worked for me:
rhauser@myhost:~> gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import 
PGP/Exported_PGP_Key(s).asc
gpg: key 49A176DA: secret key imported
gpg: key CA540C55: secret key imported
gpg: key E5A6DD35: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: key CB1E9CA9: no valid user IDs

...
gpg: key 57548DCD: not changed
gpg: key A7619BBC: not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 446
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 226
gpg:              unchanged: 217
gpg:       secret keys read: 3
gpg:  secret keys unchanged: 3


The Outlook key manager gpg_gpa from http://www.gdata.de/gpg is little 
bit slow, but it seems to work.

Although it did loose the expiration date of my key and additional names.

Rgds r.

Leigh S. Jones, KR6X wrote:
> I've been successful importing both public and private keys from
> PGP6 and PGP7 including 7.0.3 into gnupg 1.0.6 for some time
> now.  My first suggestion is to set the preferred encryption
> algorithm within PGP <Options><Advanced> to "CAST", perhaps
> this might have to be done before creating your key (I'm not sure
> of this) but certainly before exporting.  Export the key from
> PGP-Keys by highlighting it and selecting <Keys><Export>.
> Save file as type ASCII (*.asc).  If you need to export the private
> key, check the appropriate box.
> 
> When you get the key into gpg, you may have to trim off some
> user ID "images" with the command gpg --edit-key 0x########
> before the keys will be usable.  It's usually a good idea to remove
> any user ID's you are not going to use as well, if there are multiple
> IDs on the key.  WinPT seems to have a little trouble with extra
> user ID's.  See the gpg man pages for info on using the --edit-key
> command.  At least in 1.0.6 you started the --edit-key mode, then
> selected a user ID number by typing "uid 2" or similar, then
> performed a delete operation by typing "deluid".
> 
> Looks like my first "make" operation of gpg-1.0.7 was successful
> on Sun Solaris 2.5 (sparc) with gpg and gnu make.  Now to test
> the new release.
> 
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