PGPFreeware and GPG

[Dale Harris]

This has likely been answered before, but I couldn't really find anything 
off hand in the archive.  I was able to import a PGPfreeware 5.5.5 key
from a friend, and it would appear that I can encrypt stuff using that key.
However I cannot decrypt it, like I normally would, with my key.


gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 5943481D, created 1999-10-10
     <.. id omitted ..>
gpg: no secret key for decryption available
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available


Is it because the key is ElGamal (sp?)  I'm of course using:

gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.4
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160


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Dale Harris                   Arr!                  rodmur@piratehaven.org