Rare condition incompatibility of public key

[John W. Moore III]

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Myckel Habets wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Last week I had contact with someone who said that my public key was
> "bad" according his validation program. 

> The person who said to me that the key validates as bad uses the PGPkeys
> program from the PGP corporation software (version 6.58, last version
> that was released when Phil Zimmerman worked there, he doesn't trust
> later versions) to do the validation.
> 
> To sum this up I have two questions:
> 
> 1) What is causing this problem? Is my key really bad or is this an
> incompatibility between PGPkeys version 6.58 and GPG?
> 
> 2) Do I need to create new keys and revoke this key?

Was the 'Key Bad' or the Signature?  Since Your "friend" insists upon
using 6.5.8 [deprecated] then My suspicion is that the Signature failed
to verify simply because the Hash used was one which isn't available in
6.5.8.    You do not need to create a New Key but You do have 2 choices:

1.)  Drag Your Neanderthal Friend out of the Encryption 'Stone Age' by
convincing Him to Upgrade to an Application RFC4880 compliant, or

2.)  Correspond with Him/Her using _only_ a Hash which is compatible
with 6.5.8.  :-\

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Sunday 30 Nov 2008, 15:12  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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