GPG fails to recognize PGP 6.5.2 keys

[L. Sassaman]

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There's actually nothing failing with the key import, Hugh. The error
message is a bit confusing.

The key you are importing (ID 0xBAFC4008) should be adding fine. The error
you are getting will occur with every key operation you do, so long as you
have the key 0x6E720A51 on your secret keyring but not your public key
ring. If it's not a live key, and you want to remove it, you can do so by 
"gpg --delete-secret-key 0x6E720A51" (I believe.)

Werner, can we at some time have an option to suppress this error message?


- --Len.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Hugh Daniel wrote:

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>   Below is a log of my trying to use GnuPG to talk to a friend, and
> failing to even add her to my GPG key ring.  You can see that GPG gets
> confused about the key in the first command (--import) while in my
> second command PGP6 is quite happy with the exact same key.
>   Some details are then elaborated on so that you folks might be able
> to debug GPG and make it work.  That would be really great...
> 
> 		||ugh Daniel
> 		hugh@toad.com
> 
> 			Systems Testing & Project mis-Management
> 			The Linux FreeS/WAN Project
> 			http://www.freeswan.org
> 
> 
> hugh@road $ gpg --import bar
> gpg: key 6E720A51: secret key without public key - skipped
> hugh@road $ pgp6 -ka bar
> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.1i
> (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc.
> 
> Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
> 
> 
> Looking for new keys...
> DSS  2048/1024 0xBAFC4008 2000/08/10 Lisa Haskel <lisa@southspace.org>
> sig?           0xBAFC4008             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
> 
> keyfile contains 1 new keys. Add these keys to keyring ''? (Y/n)
> 
> Keyfile contains:
>    1 new key(s)
> hugh@road $ gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.3
> Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
> 
> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
> hugh@road $ cat bar
> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
> 
> mQGiBDmS+CARBADTkqahYwaaUh6nGpBcSopiLPtf4q0syd/RB5xu/ETWHRFjTBP9
> y5Tr+y08wE5f5bARWZN+0f9lotScb+nG3o4BmgLjZdNvNzHIGogbqZ0NrTRnxYsZ
> 98OVwOiejv11D9p3bJq+CKLte9IMEqKPDW3B/Qj1s+Paq3y9f0BB7kYQZwCg/6nY
> /f6PPp8sDqnCnfC1CA/YARED/RMbS4bf8y13o6mA2iHipJeyGkWyLuVocSxNQb1b
> pgmBjMT/O+b3WaceZ5OkujTySwli64E3TkISUE7FbIwLE1X5xCwCqiepg6bf/4U3
> v2IOxGxCxLM3CLmjq57FJ6o7KkvQO336yzrnoNl0T68vhL8xt/h1LpKcCHcsQcjE
> WcWfA/wOnaBMC3LV4k6WfQUjegoyrWx0vuPc6J3yKxRxukO4XhYrsEJmMjB76tVi
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> ZWwgPGxpc2FAc291dGhzcGFjZS5vcmc+iQBOBBARAgAOBQI5kvggBAsDAgECGQEA
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> PxBB2m+L3ta62DYXAKCoAy++M+ysdbqyjSdXQcChI5FmFw==
> =z8vG
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> 
> 
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> Version: 2.6.3i
> Charset: noconv
> 
> gpg: Signature made Fri Oct 13 04:36:02 2000 PDT using RSA key ID 7B141411
> gpg: requesting key 7B141411 from horowitz.surfnet.nl ...
> gpg: key 7B141411: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> 
> pgpenvelope_decrypt: Message processed at Fri Oct 13 05:08:46 2000
> 
> -----END PGPENVELOPE INFORMATION-----
> 

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L. Sassaman

Security Architect             |  "Lose your dreams and you
Technology Consultant          |   will lose your mind."
                               |   
http://sion.quickie.net        |       --The Rolling Stones

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