import public-private key

[Wayne Chapeskie]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:40:26AM +0200, disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET wrote:
> 
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > > I have pgp and I want to switch to gnupg.
> > 
> > > Can somebody tell me how can I import my public-private key in gnupg ?
> > 
> > Remove passphrase in PGP
> > Export keypair in PGP
> > Import keypair in GnuPG
> > Put passphrase in GnuPG
> > Put passphrase in PGP or wipe PGP keyring. Wipe keyring backups
> 
> no. wrong. you don't need to remove/restore passphrase!
> (but you may need to remove/restore passphrase when transferring key from gpg to pgp)

The source for the remove/restore passphrase procedure may be
the "PGP5-GnuPG HOWTO" document; there is a link to this on
http://www.gnupg.org/docs.html.  This HOWTO refers to the original
Unix PGP 5.0; that version apparently did not have an option to export
a secret key, so the HOWTO instructed you to use GPG to extract the
secret key from the PGP keyring, after removing the passphrase.  I
don't know why GPG couldn't handle the PGP passphrase.

Presumably, later Unix versions of PGP are able to export secret keys.


-- 
Wayne Chapeskie
GPG/PGP KeyID: 0xB9D2D272