patching GnuPG to shuddup was: Re: Signatures and GnuPG and PGP 6.8.X

[Armin Hartinger]

How to patch gnupg to not complain? It messes up php-scripts of mine this way. (complaining
about insecure memory)
-Armin

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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