Importing old keys

[Neil Williams]

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On Friday 26 March 2004 11:28, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> I have some old keys from 262 mine and some friends.

Old keys are probably out of date now and you may be better off updating from 
keyservers if you have a list of keyid's.

> How do I import them my attempts produce errors?

Can't help unless you specify the error messages!

> Do I need to install idea?

Only if your keys use IDEA - otherwise (IIRC) GnuPG doesn't need to look at 
the key preferences until the imported key is used in some way (to verify, to 
encrypt to or edited).

One easy method (If you have KDE 3.2.1):
Import the keys you can then use KGpg (latest version from KDE3.2.1) to 
'import missing signatories from keyserver'. If the keys are tightly bound, 
this will bring in most of the other keys.

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Neil Williams
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