Signatures and GnuPG and PGP 6.8.X

[Caleb Land]

----- Forwarded message from Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com> -----

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:29:06 -0400
From: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>
To: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Signatures and GnuPG and PGP 6.8.X
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <20001023181132.A32077@deepthought.granfalloon.com>; from bokonon@rochester.rr.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:11:32PM -0400

Hello,
	I'm responding to my own message because in about 5 minutes
after sending it I decided to *read* the archives :)  I should
probably do that first.
	Sorry for wasting your time to whoever read my previous
message.  The answer (to anyone who also needs an answer to thsi) is
to use the --force-v3-sig switch.  It works well.


On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:11:32PM -0400, Caleb Land wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I'm using GnuPG 1.0.4 (patched to not complain about
> deprecated algorithms), and a friend of mine is using the newest
> freeware PGP program (6.8.something).  When I encrypt a file and sign
> it and send it to him, he can decrypt it, but his program reads that
> it is a bad signature.
> 	Now, I tried both attaching the file\ and using mutt to
> encrypt and sign it, and I tried doing:
> 
> ---output---
> 
> [caleb@deepthought caleb]$ gpg --armor --sign --recipient "Brian R. Boyce" --encrypt test.c
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Caleb Land (RedHatDude) <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>"
> 1024-bit DSA key, ID 29402314, created 2000-10-18
> 
> ---/output---
> 
> 	He can decrypt the file fine, but it reads that my signature
> is bad.  I moved my private/public keypair to a windows box with the
> newest version of freeware PGP, and sent him a file which I encrypted
> and signed, and all went well.  It both decrypted and the signature
> checked out okay.
> 	I hope that this is enough information.  Unfortunately, I am
> fairly new to this stuff, so I don't understand it too well.
> 
> 	One more thing:  I get a message which I don't understand when
> I try to decrypt files sent by him to me:
> 
> ---output---
> 
> [caleb@deepthought caleb]$ gpg --decrypt DTF-802.pdf.asc > DTF-802.pdf
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Caleb Land (RedHatDude) <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>"
> 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 0E85FED7, created 2000-10-18 (main key ID
> 29402314)
> 
> gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit ELG-E key, ID AA4D2A27, created
> 2000-10-16
>       "Brian R. Boyce <Veritas@rochester.rr.com>"
> gpg: no secret key for decryption available
> gpg: Signature made Mon Oct 23 12:09:06 2000 EDT using DSA key ID
> 752A64A7
> gpg: Good signature from "Brian R. Boyce <Veritas@rochester.rr.com>"
> 
> ---/output---
> 
> 	What does "gpg: no secret key for decryption available" mean?
> The file decrypts fine, but I have no idea what the error (warning or
> neither?) message means.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Caleb Land
> (bokonon@rochester.rr.com)
> 
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Sincerely,
Caleb "The idiot" Land
(bokonon@rochester.rr.com)

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Sincerely,
Caleb Land
(bokonon@rochester.rr.com)

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