GnuPG and PGP 2.6: unusable public key

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Tommi Vainikainen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, disastry@saiknes.lv wrote:
> > Tommi Vainikainen wrote:
> >> But with more testing, it seems gpg doesn't allow using keys
> >> without selfsignature.
> > 
> > so ask the friend to selfsign his key
> 
> Yes I understand this is one possible solution.

this is the best soulution

>  Another solution
> would be use --always-trust but it seems gpg is buggy and is trying to
> force me to do extra work.  No good.


> >> Second problem is that pgp2 cannot decrypt those messages.
> >> Difference in messages generated by gpg and pgp2 was that length of
> >> encrypted packet was "unknown" when generated by gpg and some
> >> integer when generated by pgp2.
> > 
> > do not pipe to gpg, encrypt file instead.  then hopefully it will
> > know the length.
> 
> Seems like it was my problem, I didn't remeber to give --cipher-algo
> idea --compress-algo 1 --rfc1991 to gpg, after that pgp2 was able to
> decrypt message.  But if I used many recipients, myself (with
> DSA/ElGamal key) included, then even with those parameters pgp2 was
> not able to decrypt.

of course it can't..

>  But of course moving from pgp2 to pgp5 and
> keeping key same is almost trivial, so this should not be big problem,
> maybe I have to push my friends to do that then.

no... why to pgp5 ?
better to pgp 6.5.8 or gpg.

> BTW, does anyone know why gpg doesn't allow creating new RSA keys?

next version will allow... but only v4 rsa keys (not usable for 2.6).
but it's easy to modify it so that it can generate v3 keys too :)

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