[PGP-USERS] FW: Serious bug in PGP - versions 5 and 6

[Lars Hecking]

Walter Truitt writes:
> On 25 Aug, Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> > It is just that all PGP >= 5 versions are broken by design/bug  and
> > the majority of encrypted mail is send by PGP implementations.  Have a
> > look at the key servers stats and you will see that most keys have
> > been created by PGP >= 5.
> 
> My key was created by gnupg, but the keyserver says Version: 5.0
 
 My old pgp 2.6.3 RSA key is also labeled Version 5.0. Confused the hell
 out of me when I saw it this first time.

> I don't feel you can use the keyserver as a guide to what versions of
> pgp are being used.

 Exactly.

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