A Problem with GPG 1.2.2 on Windows

Michael W. Lewis michael at lewis.ch
Thu Sep 18 17:49:04 CEST 2003


Does anyone know a windows binary for a newer version?


What, please, does this mean?

How should I proceed with this error? This key works fine with PGP 8.0x 
(3072/1024 DSS/DSA).

C:\Mike\Installers\GnuPG>.\gpg.exe --version
gpg: NOTE: old default options file `C:/GmbH/KeyMaterial\options' ignored
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2
Copyright (C) 2003 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: C:/GmbH/KeyMaterial
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB



C:\_DROP-POINT>gpg --verbose --clearsign Readme.TXT
gpg: NOTE: old default options file `C:/GmbH/KeyMaterial\options' ignored

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Michael W Lewis <michael at lewis.ch>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID 7230376F, created 2003-09-08

File `Readme.asc' exists. Overwrite (y/N)? y
gpg: writing to `Readme.asc'
gpg: DSA requires the use of a 160 bit hash algorithm
gpg: Readme.TXT: clearsign failed: general error



Kind regards, Michael W Lewis (Mike)






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