unsuported key algorithm?

[J. Michael Ashley]

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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Johan Lundberg wrote:
> I keep getting this kind of problems, hope someone can help me out:
> 
> gpg: requesting key <something> from finland.keyserver.net ...
> gpg: key <something>: unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key something>: 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
> 
> Then I tried with the --allow-non-selfsigned-uid (I know thats not great,
> but I'm just testing this)
> 
> but then i get:
> 
> gpg: requesting key <something> from finland.keyserver.net ...
> gpg: key <something>: unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key : accepted non self-signed user ID '(some key )     
> <some@dress.abc>'  
> gpg: key <something>: public key imported
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
> 
> and when I do
> echo testing|gpg -er 8F0E6845
> 
> i get:
> gpg: 8F0E6845: skipped: unknown pubkey algorithm
> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: unknown pubkey algorithm
> 
> Is this an RSA key, and if it is, how do i use the --load-extension and
> rsa-keys? Where can I get the extensions?

The is described in detail, with step-by-step procedures to make it all
work, in the document "Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG", available from
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/index.html

Mike

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