Unknown key type

[Brian Minton]

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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:07 PM, David Vallier <timemaster at sillydog.org>
wrote:
>  Can someone please explain why I am getting a yellow bar on  a LOT of
>  signed msgs saying that the key type is unknown??
>
>  the exact msg is "Part of the message signed with unknown key; the key
>  type is not supported by your version of GnuPG"
>
>  I am running GnuPG 2.0.30 (Gpg4Win 2.3.3) on a win 7 box.


If I had to guess, Id say the sender of those messages is using ECC keys.
 They are only supported in GnuPG 2.1.  In fact, Im using such a key to
sign this message (but my key also has a DSA subkey, so gpg 2.0 should
still verify the signature). So, you may see the warning on this message.
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iHUEARYIAB0WIQTu0BWAE9wubW4AHqQ3uVB6z/IBbgUCWSMoqQAKCRA3uVB6z/IB
bphCAQDgR8N3EWlJX5sfzfXCVHFi3rWpXfinGtRbl8tlVxEm8AEA7gwKWQ5f3Z5s
F20WPXhNIxnHF+UnIY4T829pSim4TQiIdQQBEQgAHRYhBPnEu3YOeD8N7BCmimuO
s6Blz7qpBQJZIyipAAoJEGuOs6Blz7qpeN0A/R8IwSrOQreTFVB4gga79xz6XIKA
MdBvmMhXY8LSuUhNAP0Z8bv/rQWSOtf7dGPTEDYPKRCs1kYguHULVlhs/Bcc3Q==
=MOy5
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