PGP Desktop and GPG

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:45:27AM +1300, Bruce Cowin wrote:

> If I have generated a key using PGP Desktop, would I be able to
> import and use that key with GnuPG?  Our subscription to PGP Desktop
> is about to expire and it says the functionality will be reduced to
> that of PGP Freeware.  All we do with it is encrypt files (not
> emails), so I think this is ok.  I'm not sure if the PGP Desktop gui
> interface will stop working or not, so thought we could use GnuPG
> and Gpg4Win which we currently use on another project to replace PGP
> Desktop.

The short answer is yes, any key you generate with a roughly recent
PGP Desktop can be used with GnuPG, and vice versa.  Just export it
from one (remember to export the secret key too) and import it into
the other.

David