Problems for PGP5 users to use my GPG-key.

[zentara]

zentara wrote:
> 
> Jonas Steverud wrote:
> >
> > This has been up before but no solution has shown up.
> >
> > A friend of mine uses PGP 5.0 and we want to encrypt our emails. He can
> > decrypt my mails to him but when he tries to encrypt with my GPG 1.0.0
> > key he gets "No algorithm available that all keys support.".
> >
> > I am planning to removed my "old" key (I want to change passphrase and
> > set an expiry) (since I have had "problems" with the current one and
> > only he know about it so there is no problem removing the key) and was
> > thinking:
> >
> > What does I need to do to make PGP to understand my GPG-key?
> > I.e. what does *I* need to do to make it posssible for PGP-users to
> > email me?

Hi again, this problem interests me as a newbie, because I will probably
encounter it myself.

Here is a clue from the README:


    If you already have a DSA key from PGP 5 (they call them DH/ElGamal)
    you can simply copy the pgp keyrings over the GnuPG keyrings after
    running gpg once to create the correct directory.


Maybe that is where the confusion is. PgP5 calls their DSA key
DH/ElGamal? Is this not
what the snippet above says?

Maybe when you do your new --gen-key, you could use option 2, generate
DSA key only.
That way you will encrypt with DSA, which should be compatible with
pgp5.

What do you think, have you tried it yet?

zentara