Compability

H. Wade Minter minter@lunenburg.org
Sun, 14 May 2000 19:41:23 -0400 (EDT)


You're using the wrong key.  Go to
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html and get key ID DB42A60E.

The key you have is the old PGP RSA key, kept around for compatibility
purposes.  The key listed above is the GnuPG key that's being used
nowadays to sign packages. 

--Wade
Red Hat Support

On Sun, 14 May 2000, Acid-Duck wrote:


> Can I import somenoe else's key if he uses PGP X.X?
>
> Also, earlier I tried to import a key, the one that RedHat uses to sign their RPMs and everything they distribute and here's the message I got:
>
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> gpg: key CBA29BF9: unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key CBA29BF9: 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
> [ducky@quack ducky]$
>
> Now, RH site DO say they use GNUPG, how could it be using an unsupported key algorithm? Is there a way to add other algorithms to GNUPG that I'm not aware of? Why does it keep saying using insecure memory! ?
>
>
> Erik
>