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

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Walter Truitt wrote:

> My key was created by gnupg, but the keyserver says Version: 5.0
> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> > Version: 5.0
> > Comment: PGP Key Server 0.9.4

That is the armor which has nothing to do with the implemnation used
to create the key (a keyserver does not create keys)

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

What I wanted to say, was that the majority of keys on the keyservers
are v4 keys as generated by PGPG >= 5 or GnuPG.  You can easily see
that by looking at the algorithms:  PGP 2 is not able to generate DSA
keys.

  Werner



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